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.
One of the most common side effects of all these medications is a cough (Annals of Internal Medicine, Jan. 1, 2008; Chest [suppl], Jan, 2006). The medical literature confirms that from 5 to 35 percent of patients will develop a nasty ACE cough while taking one of these drugs. And that may be a low estimate. ACE Cough Can Linger: After stopping an ACEi it may take anywhere from 4 weeks to 3 months for the cough to finally disappear. No amount of cough medicine can quell this kind of cough. The only solution is usually to change to a completely different kind of blood pressure medication.