Has anyone got a link to the sort of cough that means you need to stay home.

[cece]

Just that really.

I've developed a cough today. I have no real idea of what a Coronavirus sounds like. Is there full of someone coughing? I can't find one.

Doesn't matter what it sounds like - if you have a cough, you stay home for 7 days!

It's a new and persistent cough. So you need to stay home - unless you mean you've coughed once or twice and that's it.

If you have a dry, continuous cough it could be. There is no ’sound’ associated. It just sounds like a cough.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

Any cough. Any.

The NHS advice on the cough is unclear IMO.

What is unclear about new and persistent though? Not being arsey, just genuinely asking in case we can clarify.

Dry persistent cough.

I have one. It also feels like someone's pushing on my chest and squeezing my trachia.

“new, continuous cough – this means you've started coughing repeatedly”

“Continuous” is subjective, also not the same as “repeatedly”.

PPs demonstrate that people are interpreting differently.

I'm a bit confused whether continuous means all the time without much of a break or whether it's just cough that isn't going away. My chest feels slightly heavy and it's like a continuous frog in my throat giving me a tickly cough.

When you sip water the wrong way you get a coughing fit which eventually passes. That is not continuous.

Eg with a standard cold there are often regular bouts of coughing due to snot etc. Not “continuous” but perhaps occasional bouts of repeated coughing.

Yours sounds continuous to me.

If you’ve got a cough stay home ffs. It’s not difficult.

Yes I'm starting to think it is.

That NHS advice doesn’t say to self isolate for any cough.

Just stay at home if there is a cough! Ffs, even if it isn’t corona you should be at home if you are ill!

I've been self isolating since it started. I'm just checking I'm not making a drama out of a crisis, as I feel ok apart from the cough.

This was discussed earlier on the BBC coronavirus podcast.

Sadly there is no particular cough sound associated with Covid 19.

Please self isolate if you're not sure either way

And how new is new? I had sore throat at he start if the week then a slight cough onweds and yesterday and today it’s every couple of minutes or so depending if I’m talking or moving around, painful in my chest and breathing heavily, I’m off work today as felt too poorly but I don’t know if I’m better in a day or two if I should self isolate for longer or not as my cough isn’t ‘new’

Thank you @dozer I think the advice is not especially clear.

In normal times having a slight cold/cold-related cough doesn’t make one unwell enough to be off sick from work or school.

The official advice isn’t to self isolate for any cough. people, particularly those with difficult employment situations, aren’t going to do that.

Before coronavirus you would have known if you had 'a cough' though right? You wouldn't be second guessing whether you actually had a cough. You're over thinking it. I coughed a few times in the night last night but not at all today. Therefore I don't have a cough. If I had what cece is describing I would absolutely think of myself as having a cough.

When they say new they are ruling out people who've had a smokers cough for the last 5 years or whatever.