Chronic Cough
Chronic cough is one of the early occurring symptoms of emphysema. According to the doctors, the persistent coughing in a person lasting for three months or longer during a year for almost two consecutive years gives the diagnosis of the chronic bronchitis part of emphysema. The cough might appear every day, even if there is no other symptom of the disease. A cough is the naturally mechanism of the body to remove the mucus and clear the irritants and other secretions from the lungs and the air passages. Some of these irritants might include pollen or dust. Typically the mucus that people cough up is clear. However, the people having emphysema often cough up yellow-colored mucus. The cough is generally more chronic early in the morning, and you might cough more persistently when you are physically more active or whenever you smoke. With the progression of emphysema, you might experience other symptoms aside from a chronic cough. The occurrence of other symptoms along with chronic cough might occur in the early to middle stages of emphysema.