Why do some people not cover their mouth when they cough?
365238
because they are ignorant and only care about themselves
85230
Sorry to hear that!  I work in the ICU as an RN...I don't know what ur grandmother had, so it's difficult to say why...but we don't let anyone in under 6 yrs old.  They can be carring bug from school ect....we are protecting the patient.  We also don't want infants to be exposed to what any patients on the unit may have...Little kids really don't have a strong immune system and that goes for critically ill patient on the unit as well.  I encourage everyone over the age of six to visit...they may have to wear a mask over their nose and mouth so you don't spread germs...if we nurses feel ill, we wear a mask to keep the patients safe, also some patients are in isolation and if your grandmother was..it was probably (if the case) not to bring anything back to the baby and vise versa.  Pneumonia is a very dangerous illness, I wear a mask when dealing with these patient, you never know when someone is going to cough in your face and share their germs...Have your family member talk to someone at your church or to a counselor....I hope I helped, at least alittle...
337667
It's a psychological reaction.  You see someone yawm and then your brain wants you to yawn too.  For some reason I always want to yawn when I go down the back stairs at work.\n\nIt's the same way smoke makes some people want to cough.  Theatrical smoke is not suppose to make you cough, but every play I've seen with smoke people in the audience aways start coughing.\n\nDifferent conditions cause your body to react in different ways without you have to think at all about it.
240462
There are mucous membranes in your lungs that produce the "snot" in the same way your saliva glands produce saliva. When you are sick, these membranes are inflammed and irritated and they produce more mucous than usual.\n\nThis is why we cough -- we cough because our body is trying to expel the excessive mucous from inside our lungs. It's that little tickling sensation you get right before you cough or sneeze.
754638
Quite a lot of people have bad allergies (to things like dust, pollen, and animal dander). Also, influenza is easily passed around, simply by being around a sick person's sneeze, or touching a faucet in a public bathroom (This applies to seasonal colds as well).
888312
I should think not.  People have been known to exert themselves when they are sick and their cold has gone into pneumonia.  Your body needs rest to fight off the illness.
429733
because people are tend to be scared of the unknown and they have no clue what to expect from the mentally ill or challenged there for their only response can and will be coldness and callousness.that is to protect them selves.
694241
They have some guilty secret that they are afraid people will realize or they are lying their heads off on one topic or another while speaking. \n\nThe other possibility is that you have some spinach caught between your teeth or a new pimple on your nose and they are embarrassed to mention it to you.so they are avoiding that kind of mental closeness.
576209
I'm not sure about while they are standing, I wouldn't want someone who is dyspneic to be standing. sitting, it is easier to breathe while you are leaning forward a bit, with elbows or hands on knee's. If they cannot finish a sentence without tring to catch their breath, I'd be calling an ambulance!
185651
An irritation to the cough center, causes a person to cough.\n\nCough medications like Robitussin decreases the mucous viscosity so there is less irritation.\n\nOther medication like Dextromethorphan by depressing the cough center in the medullary cough center.
81004
Cough and Deep Breathe.
459601
Cold water probably washes away some of the lubrication (phlegm, I guess) from your throat and can make a tickle worse or make a cough drier and more persistent. Something that coats your throat would make a cough go away, and water, as great as it is, does just the opposite.
1109159
The answer is is that there is no mucus directly in the lungs. We have what is called the Mucucillary blanket. Basically this is that there is copious amounts of mucus produced in the throat, larynx, trachea and bronchi. The mucus is constantly being washed down the throat, or up from the trachea and bronchi to the esophagus and the stomach. When you cough, you are simply moving the mucus in the throat and airways into the mouth. If you smoke you can damage the little hairs on the cells called cilia that actually move the mucus and you will cough up one heck of a lot more.
966851
This is not a stupid qusetion.  When food 'goes down the wrong pipe' it goes down the trachea to the lungs instead of down the esophagus to the stomach.  The reason we cough is because our body does not want foreign objects in our lungs.  Coughing causes the object to be worked out of the lungs.  Should something stay in the lungs this can cause an infection called aspiration pneumonia which can be very serious.
1134763
I would venture to guess that it is because your tubes in your lungs get smaller when you are cold.  This forces whatever mucus in your lungs be more in the way of your breathing, so you have to cough.
929757
There are hairs in the nose that filter out such particles. When breathed in through the mouth, there are other things as well in the windpipe, etc that prevent many contaminants from reaching the lungs.
1055501
Because people like to breath air instead of chewing it.