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What Is The Treatment For Cough And Bronchitis?
I just got over the flu about a week ago, I got better a couple days later but then bronchitis kicked in. It gave me a chronic cough which I still have and I am still coughing up stuff. I can deal with the bronchitis but my major problem now is that my upper right chest is in pain. It hurts when I take deep breaths, especially hurst when I cough, and also hurts from some basic movements. Today a slight stinging occurred. Could this be something serious or something simple that will take care of it self on its own?
Wed, 10 May 2017
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Going by your description, seems like you have got lower respiratory tract infection preceded by upper resp tract infection.
The lower respiratory tract infection seems to have involved the pleura, the covering of the lungs, hence you get the pain. Please do a chest x ray to find out about the involvement of pleura and fluid accumulation within the pleura.
This usually will settle with antibiotics. Since you mentioned that you had bronchitis, I suppose you were already on antibiotics. But some times people get infected with drug resistant strains I suggest you to cough up the sputum in a sterile container and give it for testing (aerobic culture) . It will show what microorganism has infected you and drugs that can act against it. According to the test results antibitiocs can be changed or continued.
A lower respiratory tract takes about 14-20 days to go back to normal. So the cough will continue for some time. You can take anti tussive medications for the same.
Wishing you good health
Regards
thanks for posting at HCM.
Going by your description, seems like you have got lower respiratory tract infection preceded by upper resp tract infection.
The lower respiratory tract infection seems to have involved the pleura, the covering of the lungs, hence you get the pain. Please do a chest x ray to find out about the involvement of pleura and fluid accumulation within the pleura.
This usually will settle with antibiotics. Since you mentioned that you had bronchitis, I suppose you were already on antibiotics. But some times people get infected with drug resistant strains I suggest you to cough up the sputum in a sterile container and give it for testing (aerobic culture) . It will show what microorganism has infected you and drugs that can act against it. According to the test results antibitiocs can be changed or continued.
A lower respiratory tract takes about 14-20 days to go back to normal. So the cough will continue for some time. You can take anti tussive medications for the same.
Wishing you good health
Regards
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