Glossary

Dry cough

Dry cough

Reizhusten·Also: trockener Husten

A dry, irritating cough is a cough without phlegm that is triggered by irritation of the airways. It occurs, for example, at the start of a cold, with allergies or as a side effect of some medicines.

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