Suggest treatment for fever and cough
Patient: my daughter is 11th month old she is sufering fever and cough from last three days.after blood test,maleria came.last two days she is taking medicine but cough is not getting down.she is not kaing any food only salaine is giving.pls advice any symptomp of swaine flu. Doctor: Fever and cough are very common ailments in children of such a tender age. Most of the times it is caused by certain viruses but it does not necessarily have to be swine flu. Separate varieties of influenza affect humans and pigs. When the variety that affects pigs, affects humans, it is called swine flu. The presentation is simply cough and cold and nothing more, the symptoms that we commonly refer to as 'flu'. Let me assure you that the hype about swine flu is more because of technical reasons like genetic recombination in the influenza virus giving rise to new strains which could cause a pandemic. But such developments are extremely rare and you need not worry. In case you are apprehensive, you can get flu vaccine for your child.The treatment of fever and cough is use of plain paracetamol to reduce temperature and use of some antiallergic like cetirizine. Antibiotics are generally not required as they are ineffective against viruses. It should recover on its own in 5-7 days.