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Covid positive patient medicine enquiry
My father is covid positive and he is being given azitheral and doxy Lforte from 13th April, it's almost 9 days. We came to know that these antibiotics should not be given more than 5 days, need your suggestion should we stop giving these antibiotics or what else can we do?
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The antibiotics can be continued till there is clinical improvement.
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Dr EMMANUEL MJ MD
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Dr. Gaurav Saini
General Physician
10 yrs exp
Muzaffarnagar
As per the latest guidelines of various facilities,Azithral to be given for 3 days and doxy for 7days.so i think you have to stop these medicine.and consult us if any problem occurs.do regular check of spo2
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