Treating acute cough: wet versus dry – have we got the paradigm wrong?

• Alyn H. Morice,
• Ahmad Kantar,
• Peter V. Dicpinigaitis,
• Surinder S. Birring,
• Lorcan P. McGarvey,
• Kian Fan Chung

Affiliations

Alyn H. Morice

Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research, Respiratory Medicine, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Cottingham, UK

Ahmad Kantar

Paediatric Cough and Asthma Centre, Istituti Ospedalieri Bergamaschi, Bergamo, Italy

Peter V. Dicpinigaitis

Einstein Division/Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Surinder S. Birring

Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, King's College London, London, UK

Lorcan P. McGarvey

Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK

Kian Fan Chung

National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK