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Dear lybrate-user, relax and calm down. Please do not self medicate. Apart from that you have not given a proper history of your daughters illness, like does she sneeze often, is there nasal discharge whether it is watery or not. You must therefor consult a peadiatrician or a peadiatric ent consultant at the earliest so that a diagnosis can be arrivilased at and proper treatment may follow.

xray chest, cbc esr and sputum afb and PFT to know cause. Avoid dust, smoke, pollution and allergens.

1. Do a complete blood examination like cbc, esr, mantoux test, x ray chest, sputum examination for afb.
2. Consult chest physician with report.
3. If all reports are normal it could be due to allergy. Do an allergy test after consulting allergist/immunologist and follow the advice and treatment
4. Do warm saline gurgling 3-4 times daily,
5. Avoid smoking if you smoke.
6. Consult me for further advice.

Dear lybrateuser,
- Do steam inhalation twice a day
- do warm salt water gargles three times a day
- avoid all cold fluids including aerated drinks, have more of warm fluids like water, tea, coffee, milk, soup
- take syrup Chericof, 2 teaspoonful three times a day
- take table levocetirizine, 5 mg, 1 tablet daily in the evening
- have 7-8 glasses of water for proper hydration
- have a well balanced diet with more of fruits & vegetables
- do x- ray chest, blood CB...more

Hello,you can take homoeopathic medicine Bryonia 30 (4 drops in little amount of water) thrice a day for 2 days and update.
Avoid cold and sour things.

Hi.
Cough since 3 days means some sort of lower respiratory tract infection.
You need to visit an ent specialist m sure he will examine you properly and give you good medication.
Regards.

Hi,Thank you for your query. We will be happy to help you.
Avoid all outside food that includes junk, processed food as well as food items that are oily, sugary, or salty. Instead eat home cooked meals with 4 to 5 servings of fruits and veggies. Have your dinner early and keep it light. Eat a protein rich breakfast every morning. Drink plenty of water throughout the day; especially before meals. Exercise at least 5 days a week, 30 minutes each time.
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1. Do warm saline gurgling 3-4 times daily
2. Take viscodyne d syrup 2tsf thrice daily if it is a dry cough or viscodyne syrup if cough is associated with sputum
3. You may have to take antibiotic along with and carry out investigations including x ray chest after consulting physician, it if no relief4. Avoid smoking if you smoke.

As per govt. Recommendation all cough of more than 15 days should be investigated. Consult pulmonologist.

Fever cough and cold are viral infections 90% of the time and donot warrant clavam, a drug used for severe infections. Kindly see a doctor for examintion and and decide the actual diagnosis. Fever usuall settles in 3to 5 days without antibiotics like clavam and cold and cough improve in one week.