A constant cough can interfere with your day-to-day life by making it difficult to fully catch your breath. It can also cause you to have trouble sleeping at night, leading you to feel completely exhausted all the time, making it hard to focus and concentrate, and can lead to accidents and mistakes at work. Constant coughing can be caused by any number of issues such as postnasal drip, allergies, bronchitis, asthma, acid reflux, medication, exposure to irritants, and many other common causes. Other less common causes include lung cancer, tuberculosis, blood clots, collapsed lung, fungal infections, and other causes. The doctors at Franklin Park Urgent Care diagnose and treat many different coughs and will work with our patients to find the root cause to provide them with relief from persistent coughing. Our doctors will go over your medical history and complete a physical exam to see if they are able to pinpoint the cause. Additional tests may be ordered, depending on the initial exam to further investigate the source of the cough.