Causes of persistent cough include post-nasal drip, acid reflux, blood pressure medications, and infections like pertussis.

Unless you're a smoker, chronic cough has three major causes: postnasal drip, asthma (the most likely of lung diseases that can cause coughing) and gastroesophageal reflux disease, better known as ...

Post-nasal drip – when the mucus slowly drips down the back of your throat – can trigger the need to cough. 'A post nasal ...

Dr. Duffy says asthma, reflux, post-nasal drip, and drugs like ACE inhibitors for blood pressure, cause the most coughs. GERD, or reflux, can cause coughing, although coughing can also cause GERD.

Postnasal drip is a condition when more mucus than average gathers from your nose or sinuses, and drips down the back of your throat or pharynx. You will naturally have mucus because the glands in ...