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Last month on 10 March 2016 my wife was admitted in the hospital for fever. After several diagnosis they diagnosis that lymphadenitis TB by doing biopsy at neck. Then they started the AKT treatment. One month had over but there is no improvement in cough Dr. say lymph node getting enlarge. Kindly suggest Dr. or treatment to reduce the cough. She can't sleep at night and day because of cough.
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Only tb lymph node should not cause cough. If cough is excessive and xray chest is normal then ct chest to r/o pulmonary tb or lymph node in mediastinum. Lymph node can enlararge after starting att.
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