my nephew has had a bad run with his chest so lately, when he went to hospital for a check up last week they told him that his lung had deflated, so they have put him on antibiotics for 6 weeks, iam a bit worried thought that they are leaving him for so long. can anybody help me why they are leaving him so long . Jill
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Hi jilly willy i've had parts of my lung collapse before due to infection which sounds like what your nephew is suffering from, mucus blocks the airways so stops the lung from expanding.
antibiotics to treat the infection and physio to loosen the mucus is what treatment I have.
it sounds like a partial lung collapse as more than that in children can make them very poorly, I used to get this often when I had pneumonia as a child.
hope this helps a bit
clare
thanks that makes sense now as they hav gave him antibiotics so he must have infection then, and he did hav pneumonia last year as well, hes never been well since then. he was in hospital for a week with that. thank you i feel much better now. xxx
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