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| allergy |
When you have an allergy to something like a plant or food, something bad happens to your body when you touch it or eat it or have some other contact with it. An allergy can make you sneeze, itch, cough, or make it hard for you to breathe. |
| bronchitis |
a swelling and soreness of the bronchial tubes. Bronchitis causes a bad cough. |
| cold |
When you have a cold, you are a little sick. You might cough, sneeze, and have a headache. If you have a bad cold, you may have to rest in bed. [1/5 definitions] |
| cough |
to release air noisily from the lungs. A cough results from illness or from breathing in foreign matter. [4 definitions] |
| cough drop |
a medication in the form of a small piece of hard candy, used for soothing a cough or sore throat. |
| influenza |
Influenza is a disease that we often call "the flu." When you have influenza, you have a fever, and pain in your muscles, and you usually cough a lot. Sometimes your stomach feels terrible too. You feel very bad when you have influenza, and you are too sick to get out of bed. |
| lozenge |
a small piece of hard candy that contains medicine. A lozenge is held in the mouth and sucked to ease a sore throat or cough. |
| mask |
A mask is something that people wear over their nose and mouth to protect themselves from germs in the air. People also wear masks to protect other people from germs. If you have germs in your body, wearing a mask helps prevent other people from getting your germs when you breathe, cough, or sneeze. People also wear masks to protect themselves from very dirty air or other dangerous things that they might breathe. [1/5 definitions] |
| whooping cough |
a disease of the respiratory system that is especially serious in children. Whooping cough is marked by heavy coughing that makes breathing difficult, and sometimes a high-pitched sound is produced as air is inhaled while coughing. The diseased is passed easily from one person to another. Another word for "whooping cough" is "pertussis." |
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