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Question: My husband and I have acute bronchitis. I also have early stage COPD. I went to my doctor on Friday and have and am on medication for bronchitis. My husband started much coughing yesterday. We have the whole family coming for Christmas, some arriving on December 22 and others December 24. How long does the bronchitis virus live on surfaces? Can our family get bronchitis simply by touching the surfaces we have touched? I have been wrapping their Christmas gifts while coughing. Does that mean that their gifts have been contaminated so they will catch bronchitis? My email address is YYYY@YYYY . Thank you so very much for your advice.
Brief Answer:
Continue your treatment and your husband should consult his PCP.
Detailed Answer:
Hello XXXX,
Thanks for posting your query on HCM.
You should continue with your treatment and your husband should also consult his PCP for a course of antibiotics and other symptomatic treatment so that both of you are well by Christmas and can enjoy the festivities.
If you are coughing into your hands and handkerchief and then wrapping the gifts with the same hands without washing them, there is likelihood that you are contaminating them. But Don t get paranoid. In all likelihood your family members may not catch any infection because of their own innate immunity. So just relax and go on with your Christmas preparations.
Take care.
Continue your treatment and your husband should consult his PCP.
Detailed Answer:
Hello XXXX,
Thanks for posting your query on HCM.
You should continue with your treatment and your husband should also consult his PCP for a course of antibiotics and other symptomatic treatment so that both of you are well by Christmas and can enjoy the festivities.
If you are coughing into your hands and handkerchief and then wrapping the gifts with the same hands without washing them, there is likelihood that you are contaminating them. But Don t get paranoid. In all likelihood your family members may not catch any infection because of their own innate immunity. So just relax and go on with your Christmas preparations.
Take care.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Yogesh D
My daughter has graves disease and is therefore subject to catching anything that comes along. I have wrapped all of her gifts while I was coughing. Is there anything that I can do to keep her from getting the bronchitis but can enjoy opening her gifts. It is really difficult for her any time she gets sick. She has had brain surgery which went well, eye surgery which went well, whooping cough and other sickness this year.
Brief Answer:
Tell her to wash hands after opening the gift and wear a mask.
Detailed Answer:
Though graves disease may cause decrease in WBCs, but it`s rare. At present all you can do is ask her to wash her hands thoroughly soon after opening her gift and before touching any part of her body esp around mouth and nose. You may also ask her to wear a mask. Let her take a vitamin C supplement.
In case she does develop any signs of respiratory infection, you may have to consult your PCP for antibiotics and other treatment.
Take care.
Tell her to wash hands after opening the gift and wear a mask.
Detailed Answer:
Though graves disease may cause decrease in WBCs, but it`s rare. At present all you can do is ask her to wash her hands thoroughly soon after opening her gift and before touching any part of her body esp around mouth and nose. You may also ask her to wear a mask. Let her take a vitamin C supplement.
In case she does develop any signs of respiratory infection, you may have to consult your PCP for antibiotics and other treatment.
Take care.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Raju A.T
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