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[|Human|] My 7 month old baby boy has had a cough for weeks. He has had bronchialitis twice, within a 5 month period and before that, at 10 days old, he had viral meningitis. He hasn t seemed to have had a couple of weeks, in his little life, when he has been 100%. I last went to the doctors and he was diagnosed with bronchialitis, with one of the symptoms being that he coughs frequently and is very sick. Sometimes more than once a day. He brings up a lot of mucous and whatever he has eaten, including breastmilk. Should I go back to see my doctor? Lucy
[|AI|]  Hello Lucy! I can understand your concern. May I have a more detailed history? Is there family history of asthma or allergy?I would like you to get your children serum immunoglobulin levels checked because he had one life-threatening infection in 1st year of life and repeated episodes of infective illness. Though this time its viral and it will settle on its own but still I would recommend going for that. Give him saline nebulizations 6 hourly with 10 Chat Doctor.  Take care of the heart rate, if it increases more than 150/min, stop nebulizations. Give him spy. Theophylline 2.5 ml Twice daily for 1 week and montelukast sachet 4 mg at night for 3 months. Give him some good anti histamines like levocetrizine for a week. You can also give a natural icy leaf extract containing spy. Twice daily for a week or try home remedies like a teaspoon of honey in a glass of Luke warm water given once daily. Hope it will help. Wishing your child good health :-)