Among those campaigning to keep kratom legal are scientists such as Andrew Kruegel, an associate research scientist at Columbia University.
Even these symptoms donât necessarily mean the cough is serious. Iâm seeing plenty of people this year with fevers and coughs lasting two and even three weeks or more who still turn out to have simple viral infections. But these are symptoms that are worth a call or even a trip to your doctorâs office.
If a person can still breathe and talk, coughing often does the trick. But when someone is truly choking it means the food or object is completely blocking the airway and air cannot flow into and out of the lungs. The person cannot cough the object out and cannot breathe, talk, or even make noise.