Remember that "bronchitis" is not a diagnosis, it is a description. If you have already established to your satisfaction that you are hacking and coughing up unpleasant stuff...well you have bronchitis.
Too often I see a rather glib "here's the Z-pack" approach. Bronchitis can be bacterial, viral, allergic or often as not, mixed. And once in a while it is something else imitating bronchitis...a rather common blood pressure medicine induces PermaCough for instance.
Personally a fan of a short run of prednisone especially if any history of asthma. Antibiotics, more on basis of duration of symptoms, we do not have the equivalent to a paint matching color chart for sputum!
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Yeah, no fun. Hope you feel better soon.
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Remember that "bronchitis" is not a diagnosis, it is a description. If you have already established to your satisfaction that you are hacking and coughing up unpleasant stuff...well you have bronchitis.
Too often I see a rather glib "here's the Z-pack" approach. Bronchitis can be bacterial, viral, allergic or often as not, mixed. And once in a while it is something else imitating bronchitis...a rather common blood pressure medicine induces PermaCough for instance.
Personally a fan of a short run of prednisone especially if any history of asthma. Antibiotics, more on basis of duration of symptoms, we do not have the equivalent to a paint matching color chart for sputum!
Anyways, get well.
Tacitus
What they said ... and feel better soon.
Yep. Go and feel better soon!!!
Get feeling better soon.
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