Chronic cough as a complication of treatment with Statins see original reportother causes in the differential include
A cough lasting 8 weeks or more (chronic cough)
Some of the most common causes of chronic cough include:
- post-nasal drip syndrome, when mucus drips down your throat from the back of your nose
- allergies
- asthma
- smoking
- COPD (emphysema and chronic bronchitis)
- acid reflux ( gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD)or laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR))
- some high blood pressure medications
- or a combination of these causes
others more serious causes such malignancies ohttp://fauquierent.blogspot.co.nz/2012/07/chronic-cough-due-to-statins.htmlr TB also require investigation
