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What Causes Fever And Breathing Difficulty While On Treatment For Pneumonia?

I am 29 yrs old and was diagnosed with pneumonia 3 months ago. I have taken different antibiotics but still feel strong fever en difficulty in breathing particularly when sleep on left side. How long does it take to heal? If the antibiotics fails,what s is the next step?
Tue, 21 Oct 2014
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Treatment of pneumonia should be organism specific. We have to search fir the causative organism.
So I advice you to send sputum culture and sensitivity. Try to identify the organism and start antibiotics according to sensitivity report.
I prefer two group of antibiotics.
I also advice to repeat the chest x ray to see whether pneumonia is improving of not.
So I suggest to consult pulmonologist and get done sputum culture and repeat chest x ray for better evaluation of your pneumonia.
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What Causes Fever And Breathing Difficulty While On Treatment For Pneumonia?

Thanks for your question on HCM. Treatment of pneumonia should be organism specific. We have to search fir the causative organism. So I advice you to send sputum culture and sensitivity. Try to identify the organism and start antibiotics according to sensitivity report. I prefer two group of antibiotics. I also advice to repeat the chest x ray to see whether pneumonia is improving of not. So I suggest to consult pulmonologist and get done sputum culture and repeat chest x ray for better evaluation of your pneumonia.