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Is it a bad thing if i took 10 days of an antibiotic and my chest xray still shows pneumonia?
6 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Maybe not : X-ray image may lag clinical improvement. Some pneumonias need more then one course of antibiotics. Follow up with your doctor.
Answered 5/3/2012
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Not always: The chest x ray will commonly lag behind clinical improvement so can be a little abnormal for many weeks in some cases. The real question is if symptoms are otherwise improving or not , and what kind of cxr change remains.
Answered 5/4/2014
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