Why is there a severe cough after COVID recovery with no other associated COVID symptoms?

Hi,

Welcome to icliniq.com. I understand your concern. According to your statement, the patient has been suffering from severe cough for the last 20 days and has had childhood allergic asthma. As the patient has a history of allergic asthma, it will be wise to find out the triggering factors like dust, smoke, pollens, danders, mites, animal furs, food allergens, chemical irritants, and many more which may aggravate her cough status. In the case of triggering factors, removing triggering factors will improve her symptoms. Again, her severe cough may be derived from a side effect or consequence of her previous COVID infection. Vitamin D deficiency and low iron status may decrease one's body's immunity, delay recovery from diseases, and make one more prone to developing diseases. Therefore, correcting her deficiencies like vitamin D and iron may help to improve her cough status. Again, the color of her sputum is also essential. Yellowish, greenish, or rusty sputum may indicate the presence of respiratory tract infection. So, in such cases, antibiotics will be beneficial to subside the infection and improve cough status. I suggest the patient undergo some investigations like chest X-ray or HRCT (high-resolution computed tomography), chest, pulmonary function tests, skin prick test, or RAST (radioallergosorbent test) test, which help to find out the exact causes of her cough status and then treat them accordingly. In the meantime, I suggest she can take Levosalbutamol syrup, tablet Fexofenadine, tablet Montelukast, tablet Doxophylline and steroid to improve her present cough status. I hope this helps.

Hi,

Welcome back to icliniq.com. I understand your concern. According to your patient's statement, her color of sputum is yellowish greenish, which may indicate the presence of any respiratory infection. So, I suggest antibiotics like Azithromycin can be used to subside her present condition. I suggest the patient can take the medications as follows. 1. Tablet Zithrox 500 mg (Azithromycin 500 mg), once at night for seven days. 2. Tablet Allegra 120 mg (Fexofenadine 120 mg), once at night for seven days. 3. Tablet Singulair 10 mg (Montelukast 10 mg), once at night for one month. 4. Tablet Doxophylline 200 mg, once at night after meal for one month. 5. Tablet Prednisone 5 mg, once at morning after breakfast for five days. Hopefully, the treatment mentioned above will help subside her present cough status. Let me know if I can assist you further.