Q. Why am I not benefited with antibiotics for cough and stomach pain?

Hi,

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I have gone through your query and symptoms.

• I feel you need to get evaluated for infectious as well as autoimmune disorders.

• As per chronicity of the symptoms cough of more than three weeks and stomach ache with burning micturition fits more for infectious disease. As you completed the course of antibiotics, it is possible that the organism is resistant to the drug.

• If you can, then please provide more description about your symptoms like a dry cough or a cough with expectoration, stomach ache in which part of the abdomen, any relevance to the position, etc., and investigation if you have done any and what antibiotics you have taken in the past.

• My plan of treatment would be as follows: Consult your doctor, discuss with him or her and take treatment with consent.

1. Tablet Niftran (Nitrofurantoin) 100 mg three times a day for seven days.
2. Take plenty of juices preferably cranberry juice.
3. Syrup Alex (Chlorpheniramine, Dextromethorphan, Guaifenesin and Phenylephrine) three times a day for 10 days.
4. Tablet Paracetamol 650 mg three times a day for seven days.

• Kindly get blood culture and sensitivity if fever is present, sputum culture sensitivity if a cough with expectoration and urine culture sensitivity.

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Same symptoms doesn’t mean you have the same problem. Consult a doctor now!

Dr. Dhamankar Amit Shivraj

Experience: 13 + Yrs

General Practitioner

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