Why do you want to cough when you lie down

1, environmental factors: if the patient is too dry environment, and the patient is inconvenient to drink water when lying down, it will lead to water shortage in the body, throat is too sensitive, when breathing by dust stimulation in the air, cough symptoms will occur.

2, chronic rhinitis: inflammation will stimulate the nasal mucosa, leading to increased nasal secretions, when the patient lies down, nasal secretions will flow into the throat, throat stimulation, resulting in patients lying down want to cough symptoms.

3, gastroesophageal reflux: if the patient has gastroesophageal reflux, gastric contents will be more likely to flow back into the esophagus when lying down, and stimulate the esophagus and throat, resulting in patients lying down want to cough symptoms.