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6 Year Old with Nervous Cough
S.P.
asks from San Francisco
Anyone ever had a child with a nervous cough? Sort of a throat clearing ,cough thing. He is 6 years old and can get fairly anxious about new situations etc. In scho...
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See all- Crazy! My six year old did the same thing after a cold. Her ped says that it was just a "habituated cough" and it was an unconcious habit that would fade. hmmm... ...
- Hi S., My 8 year old has a similar problem. It started last year about this time and we just ignored it and it eventually went away. However, we noticed that it re...
- Talk to a specialist in asthma. Could be "chronic-cough asthma" triggered by colds, changes in weather, and stress (meaning anything from mold, dampness, too little s...
