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Do antibiotics work for bronchitis? ?
3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Depends: Realize that most causes of acute bronchitis are actually related to a virus and antibiotics(which are effective for bacteria) will not help. There are less common cases of bacterial bronchitis and in this case, antibiotics can help.
Answered 3/5/2015
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Not Most Of TIME: Most cases of Bronchitis are caused by viruses and we do not use Antibiotics but rarely it may be caused by bacteria and in those cses antibiotics will work
Answered 5/6/2015
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