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Question: Yes, please. My husband has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and now has been diagnosed with reflux, which has caused a nasty cough and irritated his throat up under the epeglotus. Not sure of the correct spelling. He is taking Zantac for the past 2 days. The doctor prescribed omeprazole 40mg originally. This made him terribly ill with diarrhea and dry heaves. Those symptoms were alleviated when the drug was out of his system. However the cough came back with a vengeance. So now he is trying the Zantac. The cough is irritated by eating and it is better when he is lying flat. My question for you is the past couple of days he has begun having pretty severe occasional shivers. Of course it is the weekend so no doctor to phone. We are just very curious as to what is causing the shivers and if there is anything we can do to stop them when they start. My husband is 79 years old, has lost a lot weight. He is a small man, and normally weighs between 115 and 120. Today he weighed 103.
Brief Answer:
Needs more invetigations.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,XXXX,
Welcome to HCM.
I am Dr Rakesh Sharma answering your query.
Let me firstly tell you that he needs more investigations as soon as possible.
For present symptom I have following recommendations,
1.Tablet Zantac to be taken empty stomach.
2.Avoid spicy food,coffee,tea,aerated drinks, and alcohol.
3.Small frequent diet.And plenty of other oral fluids.Drink in sips, should not gulp it.
4.Warm saline gargle.
5.If shivers are recent , take his body temperature, If fever, you can give him Acetaminophen SOS.
Hope this answers your query if any thing else, please ,ask or you can close the query by rating the answer.
Good luck.
Needs more invetigations.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,XXXX,
Welcome to HCM.
I am Dr Rakesh Sharma answering your query.
Let me firstly tell you that he needs more investigations as soon as possible.
For present symptom I have following recommendations,
1.Tablet Zantac to be taken empty stomach.
2.Avoid spicy food,coffee,tea,aerated drinks, and alcohol.
3.Small frequent diet.And plenty of other oral fluids.Drink in sips, should not gulp it.
4.Warm saline gargle.
5.If shivers are recent , take his body temperature, If fever, you can give him Acetaminophen SOS.
Hope this answers your query if any thing else, please ,ask or you can close the query by rating the answer.
Good luck.
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