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What Is Your Advice On Covid Should We Start Azithromycin?

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Posted on Mon, 13 Jan 2025
Question: Hi,
My husband is 43 yrs of age. He already have tonsils . Because of corona pandemic now a days he used to take head bath twice and mostly used to be in the air conditioned room. He always have this throat infection. As he is into hr there and ad it's the appraisal month there used to be continuous calls from morning 8.30 to 9.30 pm. There is no voice rest and last 2 days he is having pain in the throat. Never been in contact with any covid patients but still he had isolated himself as there was a case in office who came 8 days back to office and after that he was on leave. 4 days back he turned positive.he works in a diff floor. But still husband says why to take risk as they uses lifts and all. None of the people in the office had symptoms who had closely worked with him. What is ur advice on this should we start azithromycin.
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Answered by Dr. Nishad BN (7 hours later)
Brief Answer:
Better to get tested for Covid.

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
I have gone through your query. It is better to do test ( swab test for antigen or RTPCR) to rule out possibility of covid infection for being on safe side.
For sore throat you can do saline gargle or Betadine gargle. You can also take warm chicken soup with pepper and tea with lemon and honey. If there is no improvement then you can go for antibiotics like Azithromycin.
Hope this may help you. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Thanks.
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What Is Your Advice On Covid Should We Start Azithromycin?

Brief Answer: Better to get tested for Covid. Detailed Answer: Hi, I have gone through your query. It is better to do test ( swab test for antigen or RTPCR) to rule out possibility of covid infection for being on safe side. For sore throat you can do saline gargle or Betadine gargle. You can also take warm chicken soup with pepper and tea with lemon and honey. If there is no improvement then you can go for antibiotics like Azithromycin. Hope this may help you. Let me know if I can assist you further. Thanks.