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My husband, Les developed a dry cough that lasted about six weeks and then went away, but then came back. After trying everything, including gram stains, xrays, sucking on sugarless candies, salivart for dry mouth, he was given a swallowing test, and found that he could not swallow correctly and perhaps some food or saliva was going into airways. He is on a liquid diet now, eats very slowly, but finally is maintaining his weight after previously losing a pound a day. However, he has many other complications from dementia and falling excessively, with head injuries. He is in a nursing home, not because of the cough, but they are the ones who ordered the swallowing test, and have been wonderful to watch over him and see that he eats enough. Hope this will help a little. I certainly still don't know much about this disease, even after 7 + years of caregiving. Also, he has been diagnosed with diffuse Lewy Body Disease. Laura, caregiver for Les. Herb wrote: > I have developed a dry hacking cough over the last month or so. It > comes and goes, but is there more often than it isn't. I haven't had > a cold or flu or any other reason that I know of to be coughing, so > I'm suspecting a drug reaction. But I haven't changed my drugs in > several months. I take Permax and Selegiline. Neither one seems to > have coughing as a common side-effect. > Any thoughts? Thanks! > - Herb > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn