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Severe cough
I have severe cough with sputum and throat irritation at night for 3 days.Please give medicine and the colour of the sputum is green.
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Get cbc, sputum microscopic examination done and share results.
Take tab zifi cv, one every morning and evening for 5 days.
Tab sinarest every 8hours for 3 days.
Mucinex DM cough syp 5m.l. every 8hours for 5days.
Drink warm fluids and do hot saline gargles.
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Green sputum associated with respiratory infection.but can’t confirm without lab investigations
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-Tab Cefixime 400 mg twice a day for 3 days
-Tab monteleukast with Levocetrizine before bed for 3 days
-visit a pulmonologist as soon as possible and get your chest xray and sputum culture done quickly.Green sputum should not be ignored
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* Stay hydrated and try warm fluids. Seek urgent care for breathlessness, chest pain, blood in sputum or persistent high fever.
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Take tab montina _L od for 1 week
Get sputum culture done
Nebulization with budecort and levolin repsule every 8 hourly
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Syrup Levosalbutamol- 10 ml - twice daily
Tab Azithromycin -500 mg - 1 tab - twice daily - 5 days
Tab Pantop 40 mg - 1 tab - once- early morning empty stomach.
Drink plenty of water.
Stay healthy.
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Sputum culture
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consult
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Betadine gargle add 3ml solution in hot to warm water gargle it before meals two.
Cefexim o200 two times after food for five days.
Zerodol sp three times after food for five days.
Montek lc one at night after food for five days
Ambrodil s syr 5ml twice n 10ml at night for five or as required.
Light nonstick least oily food.
Plenty of water n liquid.
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Hello,
Take Balanced diet.
For diet details and ePrescription consult by practo app.
Thanks.
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book a consultation to assess your cough and decide appropriate treatment
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kindly do connect and consult with me for better treatment plan and advice on your case via PRACTO app
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Do consult
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Dr. Vetsa Sri Krishna Chaitanya
General Physician
7 yrs exp
Rajahmundry
Need a few more details please consult for further evaluation and treatment
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Dr. Shaikh Huzaif
General Physician
20 yrs exp
Mumbai
Please consult
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Dr. Sachin Bhiwaji Sanap
General Practitioner
8 yrs exp
Hingoli
Do consult or show it to Gen physician in person
More details needed
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Dr. Shaurya Patel
General Physician
3 yrs exp
Gandhinagar
Kindly consult for further diagnosis.
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Dr. Gaurav Jaiswal
General Physician
7 yrs exp
Jhansi
Avoid fried and spicy food
Water intake more
Green leafy vegetables more
Fiber meal
Walk
Do connect and consult
Will help you
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Dr. Anuj Mothsra
General Practitioner
7 yrs exp
Jhunjhunu
Can help you, kindly consult and provide detailed history for proper diagnosis and further management
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Dr. Sakshi Verma
General Physician
2 yrs exp
Bilaspur
Hii you can consult with me on practo app
For further treatment
Do provide a detailed history
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Dr. Divyansh Jain
General Physician
1 yrs exp
Ghaziabad
Hello,
Your symptoms of severe cough with green sputum and throat irritation for three days are most consistent with an acute respiratory tract infection, such as viral bronchitis.
Green sputum indicates inflammatory activity but does not necessarily mean a bacterial infection or that antibiotics are required.
Other possibilities include postnasal drip, influenza, COVID-19, or occasionally pneumonia, particularly if fever or breathlessness develops.
Most uncomplicated viral respiratory infections improve gradually within 1â2 weeks, although coughing may persist longer.
Next Steps
Consult a general physician if the cough is particularly severe, worsening, or interfering significantly with sleep. Drink adequate fluids and consider warm water with honey to soothe throat irritation. If you develop fever, breathlessness, or chest discomfort, your doctor should assess your oxygen saturation and lung examination, with a chest X-ray if pneumonia is suspected. Avoid starting antibiotics such as azithromycin or amoxicillin without medical evaluation. Green sputum alone is not an indication for antibiotics.
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Avoid smoking, dust exposure, and cold air if these worsen your symptoms. Sleep with your head slightly elevated and consider warm saline gargles for throat irritation. Seek medical attention for difficulty breathing, chest pain, coughing up blood, confusion, or rapidly worsening symptoms. My recommendation: A viral respiratory infection is most likely based on the short duration, but the severity of the cough warrants assessment if it continues or worsens. Supportive treatment is usually sufficient unless examination suggests bacterial pneumonia or another complication. Wishing you a speedy recovery!
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Dr. Vishal Husain
Family Physician
9 yrs exp
Kashipur
green color is not caused by the virus or bacteria itself but, it comes from an iron-rich enzyme called myeloperoxidase, which is found inside neutrophils (the white blood cells your body deploys to fight off infections). As there is an active infection and an inflammatory process in response to it ...
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you drink lukewarm water..gargle with lukewarm water.steam inhalation..you can take throat lozenges..an expectorant syrup...antipyretic paracetamol ...and discuss your physician about short course of antibiotics if required
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Dr. Ankita Gahlot
Obstetrician
12 yrs exp
Bangalore
Green sputum with a cough lasting three days and night-time throat irritation usually points to a bacterial chest or throat infection on top of a viral cold, not a simple cough anymore. At this stage home remedies alone often aren't enough.
Next Steps
See a general physician today or tomorrow, since sputum staying green this long is usually what decides whether an antibiotic course is needed, and they can listen to your chest to rule out a deeper infection. Warm fluids and steam inhalation help meanwhile.
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Go in sooner if you develop breathlessness, a high fever that won't settle, or sharp pain when you breathe in deeply.
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