Os inibidores da enzima de conversão da angiotensina, conhecidos como inibidores da ECA, são medicamentos usados para prevenir, tratar ou melhorar os sintomas em condições como hipertensão, doença arterial coronariana, insuficiência cardíaca e diabetes. Esses medicamentos podem causar tosse crônica que pode afetar sua qualidade de vida.

A tosse induzida pela ECA ocorre em cerca de 10% das pessoas que tomam o medicamento, embora alguns estudos mostrem taxas ainda mais altas. A tosse pode surgir horas após a administração da primeira dose ou até semanas ou meses depois.

Sintomas

Esta tosse é tipicamente seca comfazendo cócegas ou sensação de coceira na garganta.

Tratamento

Você deve consultar seu médico, que discutirá se deve mudar sua medicação.

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Jeffrey M. Rothschild, MD, MPH.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Rothschild has been a faculty member at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He currently practices as a hospitalist at Newton Wellesley Hospital. In 1978, Dr. Rothschild received his MD at the Medical College of Wisconsin and trained in internal medicine followed by a fellowship in critical care medicine. He also received an MP...

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