Could your cough mean much more than just a cold?

What do you do when you have a cough? If you are like most, you probably pop some over the counter medication and wait for the condition to resolve itself. While that might be the best thing to do in most cases, ignoring long-standing cough could be bad for you. Apart from being an indicator of tuberculosis, a cough could be an indicator of a number of symptoms including gastric reflex and a lung infection. In this video we asked people about what they though could be the complications of untreated cough, watch and find out what they said and what actually are the complications of untreated cough.

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