Suggest Treatment For Lower Left Zone Pneumonia

Posted on Wed, 22 Oct 2014

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Question : Hello I am 32 Female having cough since last five days undergone chest x ray. X ray shows patch of pneumonitis in left lower lobe and bilateral lung congestion. I am taking amoxycyline with clav, some antitussive medicines. Pl suggest how much serious the findings

Answered by Dr. Rakesh Madhyastha (27 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Left lower zone pneumonia

Detailed Answer:
Hello

Thanks for the query

I have gone through the report and it looks like you have a lower respiratory tract infection.
I usually put my patients on a combination of cephalosporin and quinolone, for example Tab Taxim 0 200 twice daily with levoflox 500 once a day. Amox with Clav is not the ideal drug to be taken for a lower respiratory drug as first line treatment however your physician is the best judge for the choice of antibiotic. Continue taking the antitussive medicine.

Lower respiratory tract infections are common and are easily treated with antibiotics. I recommend that you repeat an x ray after 1 week of antibiotics.

Watch out for
1. Fever
2. Increase in quantity of sputum
3. Breathlessness

I hope I was of help, if you have any further queries please get back to me

Regards

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