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Cough variant asthma is a type of asthma where the predominant symptom is a non-productive cough. It may worsen following exercise, talking, laughing, or crying. Patients will typically respond to inhaled albuterol, iprotropium, or steroids.
How do members experience cough variant asthma?
Top 5 symptoms reported by people with cough variant asthma*
*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
Top treatments taken by people for cough variant asthma*
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Cough variant asthma is a type of asthma where the predominant symptom is a non-productive cough. It may worsen following exercise, talking, laughing, or crying. Patients will typically respond to inhaled albuterol, iprotropium, or steroids.
Common symptoms reported by people with cough variant asthma
Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
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Treatments taken by people for cough variant asthma
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Compare treatments taken by people with cough variant asthma
Let’s build this page together! When you share what it’s like to have cough variant asthma through your profile, those stories and data appear here too.
Got a question about living with cough variant asthma? Members in the forum might have the answers.
Who has cough variant asthma on PatientsLikeMe?
1
new patients joined this month
95
say cough variant asthma is their primary condition