Chest Infection, Causes and Treatment

If you are looking for the treatment of chest infection from your home, our doctors can help you online. Usually, chest infection gets better and mild on their own, but in severe cases, this can lead to significant health problems.

You can get the appointment 7 days a week, from 8 am to 8 pm on your tablet, computer, and smartphones and can also get help anytime you need.

Chest infection is a common condition, which occurs after getting caught by the flu or cold. People usually get chest infection during the month of winter. Mostly it lasts for a few days and gets better without medication, but in serious cases, it can lead to severe health problems.

Common signs and symptoms for chest infection may include:

• Wheezing and coughing

• High Fever

• Muscle pain

• Coughing up blood or phlegm

• Shortness of breath

• Muscle ache

• Headache

• Feeling confused and dazed

• Tightness or pain in the chest

• Tiredness

• No appetite

Chest infection usually lasts for a week, but can also persist for three weeks.

In this condition, you should visit a doctor for further advice or treatment.

Chest infections usually clear up on their own within a few days or a week. A person with a chest infection should try to keep themselves hydrated and get plenty of rest to speed up recovery.

If symptoms are severe or not getting better, you should discuss it with your GP. Maybe you are in a risk group, such as:

• Babies or young children
• Pregnant women
• Smokers
• Overweight people
• Elderly
• Cancer treatment or recent transplant weakens your immune system, so people with such treatments should immediately visit doctors
• People with chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, kidney disease

If you cough up blood or find parts of your lips or skin with a blue tinge, you should visit a doctor immediately. Although these symptoms are not common, they indicate that chest infection is severe and need medical treatmen

When airways of lungs get attacked by bacteria or viruses, it causes chest infection. Bronchitis and Pneumonia are the most common types of chest infection and are typical spreads by inhaling virus and bacteria that somebody has sneezed or coughed. This chest infection can affect anyone, anytime and anywhere. It is riskier if your immune system is already weak.

As the timeline for chest infection is only a few days, you should try to avoid taking medicines in this timeline. However, coughing can help in clearing the phlegm from lungs and can also help in overcoming infection.

Furthermore, chest infection can mould itself and can also take multiple forms, and there is no treatment that is one size fits all. In other words, doctors do not prescribe antibiotics in bronchitis (typically caused by a virus), whereas it is prescribed in cases of pneumonia.

If your chest infection is not getting better, speak to your doctor as soon as possible.

Our doctors can help you in diagnoses of your chest infection, can discuss symptoms, prescribe medicines, and can also recommend a treatment according to your infection