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My father has been diagnosed with mild ild. He is having cough. Pulmonologist had prescribed pirfenex cipla tablet. Recently changed to acebrophylline 100 mg. Please let me know what should be the correct medicine for mild ild. How to control the cough? Are there any trials or cures better in homeopathy? Any advice? Please help. Other medications that he is taking is: 1. deriphyllin 150 2. complex 3. Multivitamin.

Dr. Anusha C M93%(51 ratings)

MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor o...read more

Pulmonologist•Bangalore

Mr. lybrate-user, pirfefenidone is the main drug for ild if its ipf form. Acebrophylline is not useful in ild. There are few cough syrups that wil help to reduce it.

Asked for male, 65 years old from Mumbai

What is copd disease. Is this asthmatic condition. How can it be treated. Is it reversible for complete cure.

Dr. Archana Agarwal94%(785 ratings)

BHMS

Homeopathy Doctor•Kolkata

Hello . Chronic obstructive lung disease is a progressive lung disease . Yes its asthmatic problem . It is reversible or not depends upon its stage . For further details you can ask me through private questions.

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Asked for female, 30 years old from Jamnagar

I had undergone hrct thorax and it shows 4 cm ground glass nodular opacity in lt lower lung. I had history of low grade fever before 4 days than I was alright for 4 days and then again 2 days history of fever. My rtpcr neg and blood reports are normal for cbc crp d dimer ferritin and ldh. Should it can be consider as cavity or something else.

Dr. Jayvirsinh Chauhan93%(35817 ratings)

MD - Homeopathy, BHMS

Homeopathy Doctor•

There are more than one possibility in diagnosis like it can be pneumonia or ILD etc.

It can be best treated by Homeopathic medicine.
You can consult me online.

12 people found this helpful

Asked for male, 26 years old from Nellore

My dad was confirmed that he has 20% lung infection due to covid when we did ct scan. They have given the score 15/40. What are the precautions should I take? We don't have money to admit him in hospital. Please suggest us on the same. At present using azee 500 mg and vitamin c, zinc and vitamin d tablet.

Dr Anil Kumar Jain89%(112 ratings)

MS - ENT, Diploma in Otorhinolaryngology...read more

ENT Specialist•Bhopal

Hello Mr. lybrate-user.
Please share symptoms and signs if any. Spo2.
Respiratory rate. Pulse
temperature charting.
Rtpcr and other reports. Don't panic but please don't ignore also. Please get workup done and then decide further line of management. Thanks and regards.

157 people found this helpful

Asked for male, 79 years old from Bangalore

I am 79 years male, all my performance daily is ok, but the copd makes me not ot perform excessive since saturation falls to 82 from 94 I am taking pills prifenex 200 mg 2-0-2 daily. Diagnosed as copd fibrosis rest of my functions normal ,will I live or progressive to death.

Dr. Pulak Mukherjee91%(13393 ratings)

BHMS

Homeopathy Doctor•Hooghly

Start doing yoga, start doing meditation, do deep breathing exercises, you need proper homeopathic treatment to cure your problem, so you can contact me through Lybrate in private consultation, fibrosis of lung is common if you suffer long.

Asked for male, 54 years old from Kolkata

My age is 54. I am a patient of copd and also suffering from neurological problem. Doctor suggest me cartigen 1500. Is cartigen safe for copd patients?

Dr. Anusha C M93%(51 ratings)

MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor o...read more

Pulmonologist•Bangalore

Dear Mr. lybrate-user, cartigen mainly contains glucosamine and few other micronutrients. It can be beneficial for copd too. Absolutely no harm in taking those tablets.

Health Query

My uncle is in the fourth stage of lung cancer. He is of the age around 40-45. The doctor has asked him to take chemotherapy and it will be starting from this monday since he has been diagnosed with the disease just yesterday that's on 01/10/2020. He is physically unwell too. Now my question is, how long can he survive or be alive after having chemotherapy? What is the chance of survival?

Dr. Mubarak J90%(540 ratings)

DIPLOMA IN DIABETES (U.K), M.D INTERNAL ...read more

General Physician•Chennai

chemotherapy can help in well being a little bit... but v cant guarantee...

stage 4... very poor results.... even with treatment..

may be 6months to 1 year...

where all is the spread... do u have PET AND CT SCAN

25 people found this helpful

Asked for female, 33 years old from Chennai

My father in law has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in 2017, and undergone 4 cycles of chemotherapy. After completion of chemotherapy he was on erlotinib for 2 years, in december 2019 due to breathing issue and persistent cough and tiredness, after egfr doctor put hum on osimeritinib, but now his cough increased and his breathing and fatigue issue is increased. And doctor suggested pet ct. Pet ct interpretation "metabolically active right lower lobe lesion with local infiltration as described, metabolically active left lung nodule suggests metastasis, metabolically active ground glass opacities in both lungs suggestive of ineffective inflammatory pathology, mild left plural and pericardial effusion as described, significant increase in size of right lower lobe lung lesion and left lung nodule, medistanial node appears necrotic now" as I could not find any option to attach reports therefore I am writing the interpretation of the report"

Dr. Sanjaya Mishra90%(300 ratings)

MD - Oncology

Oncologist•Bhubaneswar

You have not mentioned about your previous pet ct report. If the current pet ct suggests progression of disease then we have to change medication and if its static or improved than last pet ct then we have to continue same treatment.

147 people found this helpful

Asked for female, 33 years old from Chennai

My father in law has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in june 2017. He went through 6 chemotherapy cycles. Then due to exon 19 mutation he was on erlotinib for 2 years. Last year erlotinib stopped working so doctors prescribed him osimeritinib and he is on osimeritinib from last 1 year but now he started feeling very tired, his breathing issue increased, cough is increased, and his ribs are paining. He was on oxygen support for 2 days. Is it something serious.

Dr. Rajanigandha Tudu

MBBS, MD - Radiotherapy

Oncologist•

Hi lybrate-user. Lung cancer does not carry a good prognosis. Your father in lawhas stage 4 disease which has been treated with chemotherapy and targeted therapy. If your father in law has developed respiratory problems even after osimertinib, it means that the disease is in progression. He should undergo imaging with ct scan of chest to assess the disease extent.

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