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Cough Symptom Checker
Here are the results of our Medical Symptom Checker to help you figure out what is causing your child's cough.

Chronic Cough
Review possible causes of a chronic cough in a toddler, including infections, allergies, asthma, and reflux.

Pneumonia
Review the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments of pneumonia in children.

Asthma Screening Quiz
Although often easy to diagnose if your child has a cough, wheezing, and trouble breathing, asthma can be much more difficult to diagnose if the child simply coughs a lot. Take our asthma screening quiz to see if asthma might be causing your child's cough.

Cold Symptoms
Parents often think that they can easily recognize cold symptoms, which are typically mild, but may linger for a few weeks. Surprisingly, they often mistake common cold symptoms for allergies, sinus infections, or even the flu.

Walking Pneumonia
Walking pneumonia is caused by the Mycoplasma pneumoniae bacteria. Although it is usually a milder form of pneumonia than other bacterial forms of pneumonia, the symptoms can be bothersome, can linger for a month or more, and some cases can be serious and even life-threatening. Learn about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments for walking pneumonia.

Cough Medicines
Review what to look for when choosing a cough and cold medicine for your child.

Asthma Symptoms
Review common asthma symptoms so that you can recognize if your child has asthma when he has a cough or wheezing.

Is Bronchitis Contagious?
Learn more about bronchitis, including the symptoms of bronchitis and whether or not bronchitis is contagious.

Allergy Screening Quiz
A seasonal allergy screening quiz to see if your kids have symptoms of seasonal allergies, including a runny nose, itchy eyes, and sneezing.

Coughing - About.com Symptom Checker
Check symptoms and treatment of coughing in infants and children in the Coughing in Infants and Children section of the About.com Symptom Checker.

Tuberculosis Facts for Parents
Tuberculosis can cause a chronic cough, with weight loss, night sweats, chills, and fever. Review general information abou tuberculosis and get answers to common questions about TB, including the difference between tuberculosis infection and disease, how it is spread, symptoms, and treatments.

Sinusitis
Sinus infections are often overdiagnosed in children. Learn the symptoms and how to tell the difference between sinusitis and a simple cold, so that you can prevent using antibiotics unnecessarily.

RSV and Bronchiolitis
Bronchiolitis is a common lung infection that is usually caused by RSV, with symptoms of a runny nose, cough, difficulty breathing and wheezing. Learn the signs, symptoms and treatments for bronchiolitis.

Pertussis
Pertussis or whooping cough has been increasing in recent years. Learn how to recognize and protect your child against this vaccine preventable illness.

Croup
Croup is a common childhood illness that causes a croupy cough that sounds like a barking seal, stridor and difficulty breathing. Learn the signs, symtoms and common treatments for croup so that you know what to do if your child wakes up barking.

Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease that can cause a chronic cough, frequent respiratory infections, poor growth, and malabsorption. Learn about treatments and how CF is diagnosed in children, including the sweat chloride test.

Your Child's Cough
Coughs are one of the most frequent symptoms of childhood illness, and although they can sound awful, they usually aren't a symptom of anything dangerous. Learn about your child's cough and what you can do to help.

Managing Cough as a Symptom
Learn more about your child's cough from the American College of Chest Physicians, which lists common causes as postnasal drip syndrome, asthma, reflux, chronic bronchitis, postinfectious cough, habit cough, an inhaled foreign body, and psychogenic cough.

Cough
A discussion of the common causes of coughing in children from the Keep Kids Healthy Symptom Guide, including allergies, asthma, bronchitis, and croup, with a barking cough.