Beijing China Cough

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Spent ten years coughing in Beijing---go to a doctor. China test-drives a lot of the new flu and other viruses each winter, and with the dense population crammed indoors and on crowded transport, it's easy to pick up bacterial infections on top of viruses. You might need antibiotics and/or an inhaler. Then wait until you feel better doing normal daily activities. Not absolutely necessary that there be no more coughing (sometimes illness plus pollution plus cold, dry air can make your airways so irritated that a dry hack can linger for months), but you should no longer be wheezing, or coughing up phlegm, or (gross but true) black stuff. Let the coal dust clear your system.

Interesting. Thanks.

I’m a little north of you in Philadelphia area. Theee was a bad cough going around here for a few weeks. I had it and lasted a good two weeks. Real hard almost dry cough that hurt. Some went to docs and got meds. I rode it out which sucked. Next time I’m gettimg a script!

I'm in Taipei and we get some bad pollution from China during the winter (think cold fronts from Canada in the US during the winter). My experience has been that any bad feelings, coughs, etc. disappear as soon as the pollution is gone. So I think it's possible you might have caught something.

I often check the pollution during the winter and do my swims if we get a bad day. I check things here (get on the map and check things out in China and India- scary!).

http://aqicn.org/city/taiwan/songshan/