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Chest infections - adult - Management
What else might it be?
- For people diagnosed with acute bronchitis in whom symptoms persist for longer than 3 weeks, other conditions to be ruled out include:
- Asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Post-infectious cough.
- Whooping cough.
- Post-nasal drip.
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux.
- Tuberculosis.
- An underlying malignancy in people who smoke.
- For people with chest signs, other conditions to be ruled out include:
- Pneumonia with underlying malignancy.
- Heart failure.
- Pulmonary embolism.
- Asthma.
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