Monday, October 19, 2009

Day +1202 : Seeing doctor

I am fine today.

I am quite tired due to the flu. So I take a day off from work today.

In order to stop the flu and cough from progressing, I went to see Dr. Koh this afternoon. He prescribed me Erythromycin (antibiotic), flu medicine, cough syrup and also Panadol. He said that I had mild fever after measuring my body temperature, so the Panadol.

In fact I have plenty of Erythromycin at home which was prescribed by a lung specialist in UH as a treatment to Bronchiolitis obliteran (BO), but I stopped taking it as later investigation showed no evidence of BO.

I am expecting Doctor to prescribe me Augmentine but doctor said that I should try the less powerful Erythromycin first. The reason is that the flu is not that serious. We should reserve the more power “weapon” for a condition that is worse than this.

Hopefully, Erythromycin will be sufficient this time.

See you next post :-)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear David

When you get better from the flu, spend regular fixed time to do "moderate/fast walking" daily at the park near to your house. 30 - 45 minutes will be sufficient.

Seu Chuong

David said...

Dear Seu Chuong,

Thanks for your recommendation. I believe this will help :-)

David