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People can cough because they are suffering from a cold or pneumonia, having reflux or runny nose (rhinitis). But also smokers cough a lot; yes, we are even back on our loved “old” theme smoking. But also patients with asthma cough.  I found an interesting blog extract about coughing children and their parents (http://durhamregion.typepad.com/neil_crone/2007/01/anything_but_a_.html): 

“Is there anything worse than having a kid with a cough in the house? Coughing is the worst. Frankly I’ll take a vomiter over a cougher any day of the week. With a puker, the kid hurls once, twice, maybe even three times and they’re done…wiped out and usually sound asleep. Hurling takes a lot out of you…literally and figuratively. But with a cougher, the kid will keep not only himself up but you as well. In fact, most of the time, in my experience, with a kid, you are the only one who is truly and completely unable to sleep at all. A parent is hardwired to become instantly and fully awake at the faintest sign of a child’s distress. After the first cough, you are bolt upright. But the kid, the cougher, doesn’t necessarily wake himself up. “

So there are happier and unhappier coughers….?!?