1) The document provides guidelines for managing chronic wet cough in children. 2) It recommends that children with chronic wet cough unrelated to underlying disease receive 2 weeks of antibiotics targeted to common respiratory bacteria. 3) For children whose cough resolves with antibiotics, a diagnosis of protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB) is recommended. Children with lower airway bacteria confirmation can be said to have microbiologically-based PBB.