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A habit cough or tic cough is a chronic cough that has no underlying organic cause or medical diagnosis, and does not respond to conventional medical treatment. This was also called a psychogenic cough but this has since been differentiated from a tic cough as somatic cough syndrome.
Different terms and conditions involving this form of chronic cough were ill-defined and not well distinguished, and in 2015, guidelines for the different terminologies were issued, distinguishing tic cough, and somatic cough disorder.
Coughing can be a tic. It may develop in children or adolescents after a cold or other airway irritant. Similar symptoms have been less frequently reported in adults but may not be the same disorder as is seen in children or adolescents.