Medical Jadedness and Treatment of Sensory Neuropathic Cough

People with sensory neuropathic cough often spend years searching in vain for a correct diagnosis and effective treatment. In a group of 110 consecutive patients diagnosed with sensory neuropathic cough by the author in 2005, the median duration of cough prior to diagnosis was 10 years, ranging from a few weeks to 62 years.

The Use of Capsaicin for Sensory Neuropathic Cough

It has been shown that sensory neuropathic cough (SNC) can be treated with certain neuralgia medications What has not yet been described, however, is the use of capsaicin spray as a possible treatment for SNC patients—an approach that may seem counter-intuitive, given that capsaicin is known in the pulmonary medicine literature as a means for provoking coughing for diagnostic or research reasons.

Sensory Neuropathic Cough (SNC)

Sensory Neuropathic Cough (SNC) When coughing doesn’t stop. Sensory Neuropathic Cough (SNC) is a chronic cough disorder that is thought to have a neurogenic cause. Sensory neuropathic cough (SNC) 1 is also sometimes referred to as a cough caused by “laryngeal sensory neuropathy,” or is sometimes grouped within the more general category of “refractory chronic […]