Abstract
Cough is the most common symptom of respiratory diseases. The results of management of chronic cough in adults are still unsatisfactory. Unexplained and difficult-to-treat chronic cough causes significant impairment in patients' quality of life. The results of recent studies suggest that speech therapy (speech language intervention) is one of the few methods which are usefull in management of persistent chronic cough. We present a case of a patient with chronic cough due to chronic nonallergic rhinitis and gastroesophageal reflux disease, who had been unsuccessfully treated for 18 years. In the patient speech therapy resulted in a significant decrease of cough severity and improvement of quality of life.
Highlights
Cough is one of the most common symptoms of respiratory diseases
As all treatment attempts were unsuccessful and Chronic cough (CC) significantly affected patients‘ quality of life, the patient was referred to speech therapy
The patient declared significant, subjective improvement, that was confirmed by reduction of cough severity measured by Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and improvement in quality of life documented in Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ)
Summary
Cough is one of the most common symptoms of respiratory diseases. Chronic cough (CC) (lasting > 8 weeks) affects about 10–20% of adults [1]. The most common causes of CC in non-smoking adults with normal CXR result, are as follows: upper airway cough syndrome (UACS), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), asthma, nonasthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis and treatment with angiotensin convertase enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) [1, 2]. Karolina Krakowiak et al, Speech therapy in management of chronic cough
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