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sdelorenzo
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Allansarmy-I appreciate your kind words and wisdom. Thank you. Just to clarify though, I am not anxious or upset about both of my children's CF cough. That is just goes along with the disease. Of course, I wish and pray that don't have to deal with coughing, but they do.
What I was trying to explain was that my son had a habit cough for 6 weeks when he was five years old, which is very different that your usual CF cough. A habit cough can be a result from having CF as in my son's case but not caused by CF. I think my son's habit was caused by his sinus surgery. My son's habit cough was a cough that appeared suddenly. He would cough about once every five second throughout the day for weeks on end. It did not happen when he was asleep or when swimming. It was from the throat and perhaps due to a tickle in his throat or new drainage from the sinus surgery. It was determined that his coughing was not caused by new bacteria or mucus in his lungs. His pft at the time was in the 130's. Habit coughs tend to happen to those in their teenage years the doctors' said. Thankfully it was during the summer as he would not have been able to attend school during that time. So what ended up happening was I had to ask my son every time he made that noise (cough) if he really needed to cough. I could tell the difference between the habit cough and CF cough, so I wouldn't correct him when he needed to clear mucus. It only took 3 or 4 days of correcting him before his habit cough ended and he went back to coughing about once every 30 minute.
Sharon, mom of Sophia, 10 and Jack, 8 both with CF and Grant, 2 and Paige, 1 both without CF
What I was trying to explain was that my son had a habit cough for 6 weeks when he was five years old, which is very different that your usual CF cough. A habit cough can be a result from having CF as in my son's case but not caused by CF. I think my son's habit was caused by his sinus surgery. My son's habit cough was a cough that appeared suddenly. He would cough about once every five second throughout the day for weeks on end. It did not happen when he was asleep or when swimming. It was from the throat and perhaps due to a tickle in his throat or new drainage from the sinus surgery. It was determined that his coughing was not caused by new bacteria or mucus in his lungs. His pft at the time was in the 130's. Habit coughs tend to happen to those in their teenage years the doctors' said. Thankfully it was during the summer as he would not have been able to attend school during that time. So what ended up happening was I had to ask my son every time he made that noise (cough) if he really needed to cough. I could tell the difference between the habit cough and CF cough, so I wouldn't correct him when he needed to clear mucus. It only took 3 or 4 days of correcting him before his habit cough ended and he went back to coughing about once every 30 minute.
Sharon, mom of Sophia, 10 and Jack, 8 both with CF and Grant, 2 and Paige, 1 both without CF