Cough cough sputum is pneumonia?

Cough cough does not produce sputum, not necessarily pneumonia, in fact cough, expectoration difficulties, is caused by a disease symptoms, many respiratory diseases, can show this clinical manifestation, such as acute bronchitis, dry bronchiectasis, etc. Although pneumonia can be manifested as cough, expectoration difficulties, but pneumonia patients are normally accompanied by fever clinical manifestations, so cough, expectoration difficulties are mainly seen in acute bronchitis. Of course, the diagnosis of a disease does not depend entirely on clinical manifestations, but also needs to be combined with chest imaging examination and serological examination. Therefore, if the patient has a long-term cough and cannot cough sputum, he should go to the hospital for systematic examination to clarify the cause and take corresponding treatment.