What Is The Cause And Treatment For Chest Congestion Along With Pain In Lungs?

Posted on Sun, 1 Feb 2015

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Question : I have congestion and my right lung area neck and arm hurts when I cough. And or pick things up on the right side. 47 year old male I had a full blood and physical last month was fine. This started about 3 days ago

Answered by Dr. Satyadeo Choubey (-4 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Get a chest xray done at earliest.

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Thanks for your query.
I went through your history. It suggests some underlying right lung infection so at least requires chest X ray PA view to rule out this.
Till then empirical antibiotic like azithromycin may help.
The infection can occur in a matter of days. So normal report a month back rules out any chronic lung disease but not the recent infection.

If xray is normal then a course of pain killer with muscle relaxant will help.

Best wishes

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