A wet cough, or a productive cough, produces mucus, which can vary in color. A wet cough is a symptom of an underlying condition, such as a viral or bacterial infection, chronic lung condition ...

Pneumonia is a lung infection and/or inflammation of the air sacs of one or both lungs. Bacteria, viruses, and fungi can ...

Children with PCD present with a chronic productive cough and recurrent pneumonias, and nearly all patients will have rhinosinusitis. About 60% of patients will develop respiratory symptoms such ...

We’re seeing common pre-pandemic illnesses return with a bit of a vengeance,” said Dr. Michael Koster, of Hasbro Children’s ...

Whooping cough, a serious and sometimes fatal disease, is on the rise across the U.S., often affecting young children and babies and sometimes resembling a cold in its early symptoms. The Centers ...

Getty “They look clinically better than the average case,” he explains, adding that these less severe symptoms can lead ... four days of high fever, productive cough that you might see in ...

Infections tend to be most common among older children and adolescents but in 2024 have been rampant among young children, ...

"If you come in with some symptoms of cough or sore throat or runny nose, whatever it is, I can't tell you if that's a cold, if it's walking pneumonia, if it's COVID or the flu. You do need to ...

So, we're already well ahead of these numbers. Now, whooping cough is very contagious and it’s tough to identify at first because the symptoms look a lot like a cold. You might have a runny nose ...