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A chest cold is a VIRUS so u cant treat it with antibiotics. If you do, any other bacterior in ur body will become imune to them and they will become 'Superbugs' which are almost impossible to treat. There are antiVIRALS which can help but chances are they wont cos viruses are constantly evolving and it wont help.

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Antibiotics are used to treat infections; congestion doesn't mean you have an infection. Congestion can be a sign of a bacterial infection but may also mean you have a virus, which antibiotics won't help viruses.

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Antibiotics used to treat chest infections are: azytromicin, clarythromycin,amoxicillin, levofloxacin, and ciprofloxacin.

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None. Antibiotics are only good for treating bacterial infections, not viral infections such as a common cold.

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Whether or not you should take an antibiotic should be up to your doctor. Your illness could be caused by a virus which would be an antibiotic would be useless.

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