It is, as ailments go, among the most innocuous sounding: a cough. After all, everyone will have one from time to time. And for the vast majority, it gets better without much intervention, bar a few boiled sweets – perhaps in a day or two, perhaps in bad cases after a few weeks or more. Except, in some cases, it doesn’t.
The coughing, hacking and spluttering doesn’t resolve and can linger, becoming an almost unbearable problem. Fits are at best an annoyance to sufferers – and those around them. But they can also leave those affected breathless, uncomfortable and make sleeping,
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