How to treat pneumonia with fever and coughing up phylum and mucus?
Patient: Hello, my son has been sick with pneumonia since last Thursday. He s been to the clinic and was given antibiotics. He hasn t really improved - still has a fever, is coughing up phylum and mucus, goes from feeling really hot to having chills, and tonight has thrown up from coughing so much. He said that it gave a new meaning to coughing up a lung . It was stringy pink stuff with black chunks, is how he described it. We believe the black chunks may have been the black grapes that he had just before getting sick. Shouldn t he be feeling better by now (5 days in) or am I just being an impatient, worried mom? Doctor: Thanks for your query. 5 days antibiotic treatment if fair enough to get symptomatic benefit. In your case it may be possible to have infection with resistant organisms or something else. Get a sputum culture sensitivity, AFB testing done. Guided antibiotic therapy will help . till then supportive care with antipyretic, lot of fluids, cough syrups should continue. Best wishes