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What Is The Treatment For Acute Bronchitis And Laryngitis Causing Tightness In Chest?

I have tightness in my chest and a dry cough. Was diagnosis with acute bronchitis and acute laryngitis 3 weeks ago. Now I am feeling tightness in my chest and have a dry cough? Tightness comes and goes and does not keep me from exercising 50 minutes a day / 4x/week. How can I get rid of this tightness?
Wed, 28 May 2014
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Hi
Thanks for your query.
Chest tightness and dry cough are suggestive of asthma for which you need to have a spirometry with bronchodialator reversibility test done to prove the diagnosis of asthma. Along with it you also need have sputum for acid-fast bacilli smear and sputum eosinophil count along with a chest x-ray to exclude other etiologies of chronic cough. You need to consult a pulmonologist soon and get yourself thoroughly examined.
Thank you.
Regards
Dr Arnab Maji
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What Is The Treatment For Acute Bronchitis And Laryngitis Causing Tightness In Chest?

Hi Thanks for your query. Chest tightness and dry cough are suggestive of asthma for which you need to have a spirometry with bronchodialator reversibility test done to prove the diagnosis of asthma. Along with it you also need have sputum for acid-fast bacilli smear and sputum eosinophil count along with a chest x-ray to exclude other etiologies of chronic cough. You need to consult a pulmonologist soon and get yourself thoroughly examined. Thank you. Regards Dr Arnab Maji