Thread: Why am i coughing at night only?

So almost every single night for months now i cough only at night when i go to bed. I can be laying in my bed all day long and not cough once but once its time to go to sleep i get a itch in my throat and have to cough. I have had to take Nyquill cough meds almost every single night. and after about an hour or two of taking it i feel better. Cough drops dont work at all. Someone told me it could be mold or something in the air. So i bought an Air filter a 3-1 air filter with a 99% Hepa Filter, Carbon Filter and UV light. still nothing. someone told me it could be allergies due to bed bugs so i went and bought all allergy proof covers and pillows that are for bed bugs still nothing. I am now leaning to think it could be i have Asthma. Anyone else have had this problem and it end up being asthma?
I am not a smoker or drinker. Also i have tried more pillows and even sleeping on my dining room table and nothing. I am going to try sleeping in another room of the house and see if its that. Thanks everybody.

Well if you had Asthma it could be a change in the moisture level. Try sleeping in another room and see how you do, if it still persists see a doc.

Try to sleep with two or three pillows. I have asthma and no, if you have astma, you have to cough at day time and when you get tired too. Just sleep with two pillows.

In your airways you have thousands, if not millions, of tiny hair-like projections called cilia. This projections are responsible for moving debris out of the airways. Throughout this process you can feel a tickle in your throat and airways. This tickle can become more noticeable when in a lying position so try to use more pillows and sit more upright. Im assuming your not a smoker because what smoking can do is paralyze the cilia throughout the day and then at night when your not smoking the cilia begin to work again and a really noticeable tickle will occur.
Anything you take to stop the ciliary action is essentially altering or stoping your body's natural defensive mechanism to infections thus leaving your more susceptible to respiratory illnesses.