To minimize the health risks of a non-mainstream treatment. 1  Discuss it with your doctor. It might have side effects or interact with other medicines. 2  Find out what the research says about it. 3  Choose practitioners carefully. 4  Tell all of your doctors and practitioners about all of the different types of treatments you use.
1 Acute coughs usually begin rapidly and are often due to a cold, flu, or sinus infection. They usually go away after 3 weeks. 2  Subacute coughs last 3 to 8 weeks.  Chronic coughs last longer than 3 weeks.
The average duration of cough, according to a recent study, is 18 days. If you think that seems like a long time, youâre not alone. A telephone survey by the same researchers found most people expected a cough to last seven to nine days.That dissonance between how long people expect cough to last and how long it really does sends a lot of people to the doctor.Cough is the most common patient complaint to primary-care physicians and accounts for more than 30 million doctorâs visits annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.hat dissonance between how long people expect cough to last and how long it really does sends a lot of people to the doctor. Cough is the most common patient complaint to primary-care physicians and accounts for more than 30 million doctorâs visits annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.