Does drinking warm tea get rid of a bad cough

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Regarding what you mentioned, drinking warm tea could help in relieving the cough , but the treatment of cough depends on the underlying cause of cough.

What are the possible causes of cough ?

There are various causes which may lead to productive cough ( with sputum ) or dry cough (without sputum ) such as

• This may be due to allergy such as bronchial asthma.
• This may be due to smoking.
• This may be due to viral infection of the airways.
• This may be due to bacterial infection such as infection of the lung's tissues.
• This may be due to side effect of certain medication such as enalpril .

What should you do in this situation ?

You have to visit the internist doctor as soon as possible so that the doctor could do a full clinical evaluation and investigations such as chest x-ray in order to determine the exact cause of this case then he will treat it accordingly.
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