pneumonia cough without sputum how to do

Pneumonia patients dry cough without sputum, on the one hand need to give symptomatic treatment, such as cough treatment, in addition to pay attention to check whether the patient is really no sputum, although some patients do not expectorate, but lung auscultation can find sputum in the airway, but because the patient's expectoration ability is relatively poor, sputum is not easy to cough up. For this situation, it is necessary to apply expectorant drugs for treatment, often need to give back and other auxiliary measures to promote the patient's sputum, in addition to the need to deal with the cause of pneumonia, such as if the patient is bacterial pneumonia, often need to give anti-infection treatment, if the patient is mycoplasma, pneumonia caused by chlamydia infection, also need to apply antibiotics, but often need to choose some specific antibiotics. Viral pneumonia does not require antibiotics, but some viral pneumonia requires antiviral drugs, such as pneumonia caused by influenza virus, which requires antiviral treatment with neuraminidase inhibitors.