two common reasons for three year olds to have a on-going cough: undiagnosed asthma and day-care attendance. if you have a family history of allergies or asthma asthma should be carefully investigated. constant runny noses can trigger a cough as well. if your child is in day-care preschool or going to play groups she is constantly exposed this time of year to back-to-back viral infections. this alone can mimic asthma and cause a chronic cough.
3 year old/cough for 6 weeks. 3 year old started with walking pneumonia to clinical pneumonia to sinusitis to acute bronchitis. she has been on 2 different types of antibiotics and has finished them. she finished her last dose of antibiotics last tue and since thurs she has has a constant cough again. she doesn't have a runny nose and she doesn't say anything hurts except her throat. her doctor says she is coughing due to the remaining bronchitis but i'm thinking it may be something else. any suggestions would be great.