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Suggest Treatment For Excessive Cough And Runny Nose
Question: I have been coughing since last Monday and can't stop, I also have a runny nose but no other symptoms I went to the doctors and he said I have a viral bug I have been resting heaps but am not getting any better have I been diagnosed wrong?
Brief Answer:
Can be due to viral infection and subsequent allergy.
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thank you for asking HCM.
I have gone through your query. Your problem can be due to viral respiratory infection. It can give a secondary allergic episode of cough also. It may last for 2 weeks or more.
If you have secondary bacterial infection then antibiotics will be needed. Yellowish sputum or yellowish mucus is the sign for this. In such case i would suggest antibiotic like Azithromycin.
If there is no such signs of bacterial infection only antihistamines and mast cell stabilzers will be enough. For that I usually give antihistamine like levocetirizine and mast cell stabilzers like monteleukast for 1 to two weeks.
Taking warm fluids, tea with lemon and honey, chewable vitamin C also will be helpful.
Hope this may help you. Let me know if anything not clear.
Thanks.
Can be due to viral infection and subsequent allergy.
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thank you for asking HCM.
I have gone through your query. Your problem can be due to viral respiratory infection. It can give a secondary allergic episode of cough also. It may last for 2 weeks or more.
If you have secondary bacterial infection then antibiotics will be needed. Yellowish sputum or yellowish mucus is the sign for this. In such case i would suggest antibiotic like Azithromycin.
If there is no such signs of bacterial infection only antihistamines and mast cell stabilzers will be enough. For that I usually give antihistamine like levocetirizine and mast cell stabilzers like monteleukast for 1 to two weeks.
Taking warm fluids, tea with lemon and honey, chewable vitamin C also will be helpful.
Hope this may help you. Let me know if anything not clear.
Thanks.
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