Happy holidays from the CoughPro team!

This year has been all about taking steps toward better health and understanding your cough journey. Here’s to a New Year filled with progress, health, and answers. 🎄🎉

✨ CoughPro 2024 Wrapped ✨

As we wrap up the year, we’re proud of what we’ve achieved - thousands of coughs monitored, lives improved, and new features launched like cough management and better insights. Big things are coming in 2025 - stay tuned for more innovations! 🌟

Chronic cough as a disease Chronic cough is a frequent reason for medical consultation and has significant impact on quality of life. Due to the limited effectiveness of currently available treatments, and delays in accessing care, patients are often inadequately managed. There remains an overreliance by clinicians on outdated management algorithms, addressing chronic cough only as symptom of other medical conditions, and advocating investigation and trials of treatment of diseases which are often not present. This may lead to unnecessary cost, frustration and potential harm. Newer clinical guidelines in essence consider chronic cough as a disease in itself, resulting from afferent neuronal hypersensitivity and central nervous system dysfunction. Secondary factors which aggravate chronic cough (smoking, asthma, gastro-oesophageal reflux, etc.) are better considered as treatable traits associated with the primary disease process rather than direct “causes” of cough.Explicitly approaching chronic cough as a discrete entity is consistent with the way in which “diseases” are generally characterised, and has advantages. The patient should be better able to understand their condition, and may have better confidence in attempts at management. The clinician should have better focus and avoid unfruitful treatments and investigation. In general, considering chronic cough as a disease should help to raise the profile of the condition, improve organisation of health service pathways, increase attention for research, and further the development of new treatments.

Chronic cough is a well known symptom, yet it can be a disease on its own, too! More about it 👇

Approaching chronic cough as a disease should sharpen focus, increase understanding and improve patient outcomes.

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