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Suggest Treatment For Fever, Stuffy Nose Along With Sore Throat In Children
8 year old female running fever, horrible cough, stuffy nose, sore throat for over 5 daysnow. immediately we been to clinic with neg strep and neg flu but gave 5 days of Zithromax...then to er when continued symptoms after 3 days. Er gave tamiflu without testing...said to continue Advil and Tylenol rotations. My kid has had entire doae of zithromax (5days), 3 days of Tamiflu, & enough Tylenol and Advil (which im worried about continuing to give) and continues to run fever nose stuffy, sore throat, fever 101.5. What else can we do? I've lysoled everything disinfected everything she touches and she is using germx. Any recommendations? Thinking of going back to er!
Fri, 6 Feb 2015
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Most persons with these symptoms have a viral not a bacterial infection and the infection can only run it course.
The main treatment is symptomatic. This means that you can:
(1) use over the counter decongestants , both topical and oral, to help with the nasal symptoms
Topical decongestants would be otrivine or normal saline
(2)cough suppressants
(3)if the cough is wet, she would need a mucolytic to help break up the mucus so that it can be expelled.
Eg bisolvan, mucomyst, guifenesin
(4)fluids and rest
I hope this helps
Most persons with these symptoms have a viral not a bacterial infection and the infection can only run it course.
The main treatment is symptomatic. This means that you can:
(1) use over the counter decongestants , both topical and oral, to help with the nasal symptoms
Topical decongestants would be otrivine or normal saline
(2)cough suppressants
(3)if the cough is wet, she would need a mucolytic to help break up the mucus so that it can be expelled.
Eg bisolvan, mucomyst, guifenesin
(4)fluids and rest
I hope this helps
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