###Human: What can be done to cure chronic cough? ###Assistant: Hello. Did your doctor prescribe you to undergo a PFT or pulmonary function test accompanied with a reversibility with bronchodilator? If not, then before using inhalers, the diagnosis of bronchial asthma must be established. I suggest you stop the steroid inhaler for three months if your symptoms are not present at present and then you go to a pulmonologist and get your PFT done. For the time being, if the frequency of symptoms is less than one per month, you can take the Salbutamol inhaler on a required basis. For allergy, you can take the combination Monteleukast (10) with Levocetirizine (5) at bedtime for 15 days. Steroid inhalers although have few systemic adverse effects, should not be prescribed in the absence of an established diagnosis of bronchial asthma. If the diagnosis cannot be established even after thorough investigations and if symptoms are distressing, then one can advise a trial of a steroid inhaler. There is also a variant of asthma which is called cough predominant asthma which your doctor had thought you have, I guess. Lastly, gastroesophageal reflux is a very common cause of a chronic cough with a normal X-ray chest. so you can take a combination of Pantoprazole (40) with Domperidone (30) sustained-release before food for one month.