Is there an audio recording of a dry covid cough to differentiate it from an asthma cough?

[ThatDirection]

Or do they sound the same?

I was googling this this week too. Watching with interest

I googled this last week too when my son was coughing, he sounded like he had a croup cough. Couldn't find anything

You'd think there would be something.

There isn't anything because the suggestion that a Covid cough is a dry cough is no longer thought to be true. It was mentioned way back at the start of the outbreak, but evidence has since proved it wrong.

See extract below from NHS guidelines. Basically any new cough could be Covid. It's unlikely that it is (much more likely to be something like the common cold), but there's no way of knowing without a test. If you or your child have a new cough you need to isolate and get tested.

I have cough variant asthma so this would be useful to know. My cough lasts for weeks, prevents any attempt at sleep and is dry, loud and persistent.

I get it after every cold so I'm currently avoiding anywhere non essential even though my medication isn't strong enough to be shielding. It's a horrible form of asthma that's difficult to control with medication.

@Stellaris22 Well, the rules are clear. If you develop a NEW cough (doesn't matter whether that's with/after cold symptoms) then you need to test/isolate. If you ALWAYS have a cough and the cough gets worse then you need to test/isolate.
Some people get common cold symptoms as part of Coronavirus - it doesn't rule it out.

I’ve had a sore throat for days. I think I’m
About to get a cough too. Hoping it doesn’t appear but if it does I will need to get a test. Annoying (having to isolate) as I think it will just be part of the sore throat and I don’t think that’s a symptom but it will need to be done.

I was ill in mid-March just as everything was kicking off. I'm as sure as can be that it was covid although there was no testing back then. I had a very persistent (i.e. every minute or so) cough, a very tight chest, diminished (but not fully gone) sense of taste and smell and basically I was just floored for 3 weeks. After three weeks, all symptoms started to subside and the cough reduced but, even now, has never fully gone away. I find that every single night since March, when I've lie down in bed, my chest immediately tightens and I cough 5 or 6 times. Similarly, when I walk up the hill to my house - it's steep but never bothered me pre-March - I now have a coughing fit at the top. I've started doing C25K - used to run 10k regularly but building this up lowly again now and at the end of every run I cough a couple of times. DH thinks I should get tested but the thing is, this has stayed at exactly the same rate since March and seems to me to be a direct consequence of the illness I had then. My understanding, as verified by a pp, is that it hasn't changed or worsened therefore no need for a test? I am starting to wonder though if this is an indication that it definitely was covid and has left me with some longer term chest/lung issues - maybe asthma?

Sorry, I know this asks more questions rather than answering the OP but it's been on my mind a lot and this thread seemed relevant.

@ThatDirection
The problem is that to most of us who aren't medically trained it is unlikely that we could reliably tell the different types of cough apart meaning any attempts to get people to self triage would almost certainly lead to many with a Covid related cough going untested and not isolating. It also gives plausible deniability to those who wish not to isolate to claim they thought it was a different type of cough rather than follow the rules.

The interviews of covid sufferers televised showed a shortness of breath between coughs rather like asthma, whereas a normal cough once you have got it up your speech is normal not breathless.

Thanks for the update about it not being a dry cough. It's the 'dry' cough part that has stuck in people's minds and why I know people are going to be staring at my dd suspiciously all winter if she coughs, as her asthma cough is an unproductive cough. I don't even understand what they mean by continuous cough and coughing a lot more than an hour. Coughing continually for a whole hour plus? What constitutes a coughing episode?

DD has a cold. I've kept her off so as not to spread it further. No other symptoms, not even remotely fatigued by it, a few days into the cold, she's got a cough - which is the same as her asthma cough, which she always gets when she has a cold. My other DD's school wrote to parents and told us not to keep them from school or test if they have cold symptoms and are well, and the cough is in line with what they usually get with a cold.

DD has cough-variant asthma @Stellaris22 I agree it is not easy to control. I sometimes wonder how much difference her medication makes. It's a difficult asthma to read because they don't wheeze and aren't noticeably breathless. When she has an 'attack' her symptoms don't fit the language used on her asthma plan or asthma nurse. The cough can be really disruptive to sleep. You have my sympathies