yes My husband has had a dry caugh for more than one year, has gone from now and then to now it is constant worse at night gets a fever at night gets chills and is fatigued when this happens. The dr. said his lungs are clear ct scan was good. So he said it must be acid reflux..however the meds he has been taking fot that are not working. Can you help? Also he gets body aces and pain with the fever along with head ace each time the fever comes at night.
Thanks for asking your query completely understand your concern actually Chat Doctor. Secondly if regurgitation is a problem the should use proton pump inhibitors like pantoprazole once daily that will cure the problem of cough due to regurgitation. If it is like fever with chills along with cough and some kind of chest pain then you should consult a pulmonologist, he can guide you. Because it appears like pneumonia but in pneumonia cough is productive along with fever and chills and phlegm or sputum is yellow for which he should take some antibiotic like lifetime for two weeks . And if it is the starting of pneumonia nothing will come in chest X-ray. And pneumonia can be due to some anaerobic pathogens in case of regurgitation of fluid from stomach and in that scenario a 