What Antibiotics Should You Take For Bronchitis

76 rowsBronchitis is most often caused by viruses, so antibiotics will not help treat the condition. Most cases of acute bronchitis get better by themselves without treatment within a couple of weeks. Cough medications may help with sleep at night and people with other conditions (such as asthma or COPD) may benefit from bronchodilators and corticosteroids to. While this review suggests limited if any clinical benefit from antibiotics, one could argue for prescribing antibiotics for acute bronchitis because studies of patient utilities for antibiotic treatment for respiratory infections suggest that even small benefits are seen as important by some patients (Herman 1984), and because the adverse effects associated with. Bronchitis