This document provides guidance on diagnosis banding for cough or breathing difficulties in children. It categorizes causes based on duration of cough as acute, subacute, or chronic. For acute cough, potential causes include laryngotracheobronchitis, pertussis, psychogenic cough, upper and lower respiratory infections, asthma, and inhalation injury. Subacute cough may be caused by post-viral cough or acute bronchitis. Chronic cough could result from asthma, gastroesophageal reflux, cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia, bronchiectasis, recurrent pneumonia, tuberculosis, or interstitial lung disease. Factors such as contact with TB patients, symptoms, triggers, infection
This document provides guidance on diagnosis banding for cough or breathing difficulties in children. It categorizes causes based on duration of cough as acute, subacute, or chronic. For acute cough, potential causes include laryngotracheobronchitis, pertussis, psychogenic cough, upper and lower respiratory infections, asthma, and inhalation injury. Subacute cough may be caused by post-viral cough or acute bronchitis. Chronic cough could result from asthma, gastroesophageal reflux, cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia, bronchiectasis, recurrent pneumonia, tuberculosis, or interstitial lung disease. Factors such as contact with TB patients, symptoms, triggers, infection
This document provides guidance on diagnosis banding for cough or breathing difficulties in children. It categorizes causes based on duration of cough as acute, subacute, or chronic. For acute cough, potential causes include laryngotracheobronchitis, pertussis, psychogenic cough, upper and lower respiratory infections, asthma, and inhalation injury. Subacute cough may be caused by post-viral cough or acute bronchitis. Chronic cough could result from asthma, gastroesophageal reflux, cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia, bronchiectasis, recurrent pneumonia, tuberculosis, or interstitial lung disease. Factors such as contact with TB patients, symptoms, triggers, infection