Differential diagnosis

First consider life threatening causes - FB aspiration, PE, PTX

• FB Aspiration
• Asthma
• Infection - most commonly viral URTIs
• Allerghic rhinitis
• Psychogenic cough
• New presentation of GORD

Cough sounds

• Barking cough – croup
• Honking, bizarre cough – psychogenic cough
• Whooping cough – pertussis (also called paroxysmal cough)
• Staccato cough – Chlamydia pneumoniaeo Stridor – acute epiglottitis, retropharyngeal abscess, croup
• Wheezing – asthma, LRTI, aspiration of a foreign body, pneumonia

Infection

URTI Sx - fever, sore throat, runny nose, acute OM

• More likely viral - rhinovirus, corona virus, parainfluenza, RSV