You can get rid of a dry cough in 5 minutes by drinking some warm or hot herbal teas, tea with honey, drinking some warm water or clear broth and by taking a steamy shower.
The blood test that is done for a dry cough is a CBC or complete blood count blood test which examines the white blood cell count and the test provides insights into your body's immune response.
And an increase in white blood cell count and specifically elevated neutrophils can indicate that you have an ongoing infection.
If your tickle in your throat won't go away it is likely just an irritant or a common cold or you may have GERD.
If the tickle in your throat does not go away within a week or so you should see your doctor.
You can gargle with some salt water or take a spoonful of honey or some cough syrup or even drink some hot tea with honey.
To sleep with a tickly cough use a humidifier in your room and prop your head up and your neck up using a wedge pillow or use multiple bed pillows.
You can stop a tickle in your throat at night by gargling with some water salt water, drink more water, drink some hot tea with honey or take a spoonful of honey.
Also suck on some cough drops or take some cough medicine.
Taking a hot shower can also add moisture to your throat and stop a tickle in your throat and help ease coughing.
The best medicine for itchy throat and cough are antihistamines such as allegra, Zyrtec, Claritin and Benadryl.
Taking some honey or drinking some hot tea with some honey can also help soothe an itchy throat and help with coughing.
Cough drops and throat lozenges are also helpful for coughing and itchy throats.
You can't damage your throat from coughing although you can cause irritation of the throat and a sore throat but the throat will heal within a few days to a few weeks.
No permanent damage will occur from coughing.
It is not possible to cough up a lung no matter how violently you cough as your trachea also called the windpipe is too small for one of the lungs to fit through so coughing up a lung is impossible.
You cannot and will not damage your lungs from coughing although coughing too hard or too much can irritate your lungs and throat and cause more coughing.
If you cough too much it may lead to irritation of your lungs and throat and may cause a sore throat as well as possible broken ribs, vomiting, urinary incontinence, headaches, fainting, dizziness, or sleeplessness.
Coughing up clear jelly like balls is a sign of allergens that get into your lungs and your body produces excessive mucus to get rid of the allergens.
The little white balls are basically just excess mucus that your body is trying to get rid of the allergens in.
The little white chunks that you cough up are tonsil stones.
The tonsil stones that are coughed up as white chunks are formed by debris which build up in your tonsils.
Most of the tonsil stones are small and are most commonly under 5mm across in size.
Your glands contain folds known as tonsillar crypts.
And if the tonsillar crypts become enlarged then minerals like calcium can then become trapped and then calcify or harden into tonsil stones.
When you cough up thick, solid white mucus, it can be a sign that you have a bacterial infection in your airways.
This type of an infection can sometimes require prescription antibiotics from your doctor to treat.
Tonsil stones smell because the bacteria and fungi feed on the mucus, food, and debris that gets stuck in the tonsil pits.
The anaerobic bacteria produces foul smelling sulfides giving it that distinct pungent smell.
Tonsil stones are also composed of many layers of living microbes.