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If you guessed about a week, you are average, but you are wrong. In a new study, doctors who reviewed medical studies found that acute cough, sometimes called acute bronchitis, lasts an average of nearly 18 days.
The answer, according to most doctors, is close to 18 days. Yet many people with a cough get antsy after about five to nine days, a new study shows. â Coughs last for longer than we think they do,â says researcher Mark H. Ebell, MD, a family doctor at the University of Georgia in Athens.