Persistent cough for almost a week

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Asked for Male, 3 Years

My son 2yrs 9 months initially started with a dry cough, being a dry cough the doctor here prescribed him a cetrizine syrup but after 2 days also the cough increased instead of decreasing, now he is on cefixime for the past 3 days, and the cough is still persistent and he had a bad cough in the early morning hours today while he was sleeping.

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Dr. Vaibhav Jain Pediatrician 13 yrs exp Lucknow · Accepted Answer

Dr. Vaibhav Jain

Pediatrician 13 yrs exp Lucknow

Cefexime is antibiotic for below diaphragm. If it looks like due to any infevtion. The medicine should be changed

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