Aditya Birla Hospital

lybrate-user, All TB medications should be within span of 1 hour. Rifampicin and Isoniazid should be taken before breakfast and rest after breakfast.

Thanks for contacting with your health concern and after going through your case history, I'm of the following opinion: 1. After going through your symptoms of cough/congestion, either there is the possibility of seasonal allergy, chronic bronchitis, or pneumonia as such you should see a Chest Specialist for relevant physical examination and investigation like: - Hb%, WBC for eosinophilia. - X-ray chest for TB, Pneumonia. - If other investigations are normal, HIV test [as routine] As mainly chest symptoms are there, thus this is an indication for immediate chest X-ray..-.The choice of antibiotic will vary from doctor to doctor, and from locality to locality, till then- maintain good oral hygiene, rinse your mouth after every meal, avoid smoking, tobacco chewing. - Take mainly soft diet - rice, chapati, or phulka, with nonspicy vegetables. - Avoid fried foods like wada, samosa, dosa, pakodas, papad, namkeen and potato chips, avoid hotel food. - Do not take any cold drinks, cold water, ice cream, chilled food from the refrigerator. - Avoid sour fruits like citrus fruits, grapes, take sweet fruits- bananas, papaya - Steam Inhalation and warm salt water gargles. - Cover the mouth while coughing (using hand or handkerchief) to prevent the spread of infection to other family members. PS. I do prepare result oriented medicine, if interested you can contact me directly on: /shimla/doctor/dr-munish-sood-ayurveda.

Please get that sputum tested for ZN stain from nearby microbiology laboratory. Per se it's not the only symptom of TB.

If the antibiotic is not responding for two days you need to see ENT specialist. Add Betadine gargle.

Spirometry to be done. If there is evidence of reversibility, then ICS LABA (Foracort) to be inhaled twice daily on a long term basis. You are suffering from Asthma.

This is seasonal allergies. Steam inhalation helps. Antiallergic tablet like Phenargan twice daily for or once a day for at least one week eat light nourishment only. Avoid pollution both indoors and outdoors.

Asthalin is safe in most of the conditions, but if your need for asthalin is thrice daily for longer duration, then you need to take a proper consultation with a chest physician, who will in turn diagnose severity of your asthma and tailor treatment accordingly. Such long term use of asthalin without any other medication is going to worsen your condition.