CASE REPORT article
Front. Med.
Sec. Pulmonary Medicine
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1657223
This article is part of the Research TopicCase Reports in Pulmonary Medicine 2025View all 9 articles
Chronic Tic Cough in Adults: A Case Report
Provisionally accepted
- 1West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- 2Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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Chronic cough in adults is commonly caused by respiratory disorders (e.g., cough variant asthma, CVA), ear, nose and throat (ENT) disorders (e.g., postnasal drip), digestive disorders (e.g., gastroesophageal reflux disease, GERD), as well as anaphylaxis and allergy. Tic cough is infrequent in adults but warrants consideration in individuals who have excluded these somatic disorders and exhibit inadequate response to diagnostic treatments, especially those with a history of tic disorder or ongoing tic symptoms. In these cases, a multi-disciplinary treatment (MDT) for chronic cough that includes psychiatrists is recommended as the optimal management approach.
Keywords: chronic cough, tic disorder, Tic cough, Multidisciplinary treatment, psychiatric evaluation
Received: 01 Jul 2025; Accepted: 29 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Yang, Qiu, Liu, Meng and Qiu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Changjian Qiu, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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