What Is Acute Pharyngitis?
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
7. Cough
Depending on the underlying cause, somebody that has a sore throat is also likely to have a cough. This is simply because both symptoms are likely to be found together in a number of diseases. Unfortunately, a cough is often one of the last things the patient wants when their sore throat is already giving them considerable pain.
There are different types of cough, each of which is more or less likely to make a patients sore throat worse. In some instances, a sore throat might even have been caused by a patients cough. Coughing is also one of the most common ways that certain disease will be spread to other people.
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