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Worried for pneumonia. Please help.
* Low grade fever occasionally
* Started off as cold or what I though was bronchitis Wednesday night
* Coughing up very thick phlegm/mucous Friday-Saturday night
* Sunday turned to dry persistent cough
* Sunday night same cough but sometimes with some mucous if coughing hard enough, into very painful, back pain, chest pain when trying to take a deep breathe or coughing.
* Pain worsens when exhaling
* Fatigue and chills, I feel hot in my head but I’m freezing.
* Loss of appetite
* Now- Monday
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As fever and phlegm running for more than 5 days, take a chest Xray and phlegm test to rule out pneumonia. And you can know the type of infection. It will help to decide the Antibiotics.
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