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Suggest Treatment For Chest Congestion

My father , age 58 suffering with chest congestion in regular intervals of 25-30 days. Symptoms are phelgum,difficult to breath after walking a short distance and difficulty in sleep during night and felling tired . He is taking tab.amlong 5mg daily . Pls suggest
Mon, 16 Mar 2015
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Welcome to Health Care Magic. Thank you for posting your question. I can understand your concern for your father.

Shortness of breath can be due to chest infection , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD) (it occurs more in smokers) , heart failure , cardiomyopathies (dysfunction of the heart), cardiac valvular dysfunction and many more.

He is taking antihypertensive (Amlong 5mg) . So he must be having high blood pressure.

I would suggest you not to waste time and visit a cardiologist.
Get your dad's Chest X-Ray ,EKG and ECHOCARDIOGRAM done immediately. The Ejection fraction of his heart is to be known as early as possible. Do not worry. With proper medications , Oxygen , it can be kept in control.

Post any other question.We will be happy to help.
Have a nice day. Regards.
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Suggest Treatment For Chest Congestion

Welcome to Health Care Magic. Thank you for posting your question. I can understand your concern for your father. Shortness of breath can be due to chest infection , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD) (it occurs more in smokers) , heart failure , cardiomyopathies (dysfunction of the heart), cardiac valvular dysfunction and many more. He is taking antihypertensive (Amlong 5mg) . So he must be having high blood pressure. I would suggest you not to waste time and visit a cardiologist. Get your dad s Chest X-Ray ,EKG and ECHOCARDIOGRAM done immediately. The Ejection fraction of his heart is to be known as early as possible. Do not worry. With proper medications , Oxygen , it can be kept in control. Post any other question.We will be happy to help. Have a nice day. Regards.