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Suggest Treatment For Severe Chest Congestion

My 1 year old son is suffering from severe chest congestion. He has been prescribed Asthalin syrup 5 ml 3 times daily Advent antibiotics 5 ml 2 times daily It s been 3 days of medication n there is no improvement. He coughs throughout night he is not able to eat nor drink milk. He passes watery motion after consumption of these medicines. Plz help.
Mon, 29 Sep 2014
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I do not know where you are but if you have an option of giving the Asthalin as a breathing treatment rather than syrup that would be better. Advent is known to cause diarrhea. It is a good antibiotic however and you can lessen the diarrhea by giving probiotics (lactobacillus). For now do not worry about milk but try to get your child to drink a lot of liquids so he has good urine output (4-5 times a day wet diapers) . You need to keep up with his increased need for fluids from the illness as well as with the extra fluid losses from the diarrhea. He would benefit from a small amount of mashed banana (not baby food but real banana mashed up) to help slow the diarrhea and replace potassium lost in the diarrhea. You can help with the cough by giving him warm water with honey to sip and by cool humidified air if possible. If you have cough driops, you can smash them and let him suck on small pieces to sooth his cough. After three days a bacterial infection should be better so this tells me that his illness if likely viral. Even though, I would continue the antibiotic so he does not get a secondary bacterial infection while ill. A viral respiratory illness can take up to a week to improve.
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Suggest Treatment For Severe Chest Congestion

I do not know where you are but if you have an option of giving the Asthalin as a breathing treatment rather than syrup that would be better. Advent is known to cause diarrhea. It is a good antibiotic however and you can lessen the diarrhea by giving probiotics (lactobacillus). For now do not worry about milk but try to get your child to drink a lot of liquids so he has good urine output (4-5 times a day wet diapers) . You need to keep up with his increased need for fluids from the illness as well as with the extra fluid losses from the diarrhea. He would benefit from a small amount of mashed banana (not baby food but real banana mashed up) to help slow the diarrhea and replace potassium lost in the diarrhea. You can help with the cough by giving him warm water with honey to sip and by cool humidified air if possible. If you have cough driops, you can smash them and let him suck on small pieces to sooth his cough. After three days a bacterial infection should be better so this tells me that his illness if likely viral. Even though, I would continue the antibiotic so he does not get a secondary bacterial infection while ill. A viral respiratory illness can take up to a week to improve.