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Suggest Treatment For Severe Cough With Excess Mucus In The Throat
Question: I developed a respiratory infection. Doctor persctibed antibiotics, but was told totakeit if needed after 3 days. I was fiercer to take cause I did not get better. Three weeks later I am still coughing but now with phlegm. Sometimes it becomes an attack for a minute. Do i need to go back to the docter cause something else might have developed. Worst a night before bed.
Brief Answer:
Yes, I do recommend a revisit to your doctor for the following reasons
Detailed Answer:
Hello ma'am and welcome.
Thank you for writing to us.
I have gone through your query with diligence and would like you to know that I am here to help. Sometimes although antibiotics are prescribed for a certain infections such scenarios can take place:
1. The antibiotic prescribed (Although the correct one) was not prescribed for the required duration of time, or the required dosage was not prescribed which can result in inadequate action to combat the infection causing organisms
2. The antibiotic prescribed (although apt for the particular infection) can be resistant in that particular individual. Each individual is different, and although most individuals are susceptible to general antibiotics, some individuals in their lifetime due to various causes develop a resistance to certain antibiotics. For this reason, when that particular antibiotic is prescribed, it has a negligible or zero effect on combating infections in that individual
These 2 along with other causes could have led your infection to persist, or this could be a totally different infection. So yes ma'am, I do recommend a revisit to your doctors office to find the cause for your symptoms to persist even 3 weeks after they first appeared despite the use of antibiotics, and to be prescribed a more accurate and effective course this time around.
If you do not mind, please do let me know the colour of your phlegm just for reference.
I hope you find my response both helpful and informative. Please feel free to write back to me for any further clarifications, I am always here to help.
Best wishes.
Yes, I do recommend a revisit to your doctor for the following reasons
Detailed Answer:
Hello ma'am and welcome.
Thank you for writing to us.
I have gone through your query with diligence and would like you to know that I am here to help. Sometimes although antibiotics are prescribed for a certain infections such scenarios can take place:
1. The antibiotic prescribed (Although the correct one) was not prescribed for the required duration of time, or the required dosage was not prescribed which can result in inadequate action to combat the infection causing organisms
2. The antibiotic prescribed (although apt for the particular infection) can be resistant in that particular individual. Each individual is different, and although most individuals are susceptible to general antibiotics, some individuals in their lifetime due to various causes develop a resistance to certain antibiotics. For this reason, when that particular antibiotic is prescribed, it has a negligible or zero effect on combating infections in that individual
These 2 along with other causes could have led your infection to persist, or this could be a totally different infection. So yes ma'am, I do recommend a revisit to your doctors office to find the cause for your symptoms to persist even 3 weeks after they first appeared despite the use of antibiotics, and to be prescribed a more accurate and effective course this time around.
If you do not mind, please do let me know the colour of your phlegm just for reference.
I hope you find my response both helpful and informative. Please feel free to write back to me for any further clarifications, I am always here to help.
Best wishes.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Yogesh D
The color of phlegm is yellow. Cannot cough up much. It gets stuck in throat and I start to choke.
Brief Answer:
Will need antibiotic coverage, bronchodilators; can try sips of warm water
Detailed Answer:
Hello once again ma'am.
Dark yellowish colour phlegm could be a sign of a bacterial infection, which means the antibiotics were either inadequate, or resistant. So this would mandate a revisit to your doctors office ma'am.
You will also have to drink plenty of fluids, try drinking sips of lukewarm water at regular intervals. Also, adding a bronchodilator would benefit you because of your choking like sensation which could be due to both the phlegm and/or obstruction as well.
I hope this helps ma'am. Please feel free to write back to me for any further clarifications, I would be more than happy to help.
Best wishes.
Will need antibiotic coverage, bronchodilators; can try sips of warm water
Detailed Answer:
Hello once again ma'am.
Dark yellowish colour phlegm could be a sign of a bacterial infection, which means the antibiotics were either inadequate, or resistant. So this would mandate a revisit to your doctors office ma'am.
You will also have to drink plenty of fluids, try drinking sips of lukewarm water at regular intervals. Also, adding a bronchodilator would benefit you because of your choking like sensation which could be due to both the phlegm and/or obstruction as well.
I hope this helps ma'am. Please feel free to write back to me for any further clarifications, I would be more than happy to help.
Best wishes.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Yogesh D
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