Chest Infection..

[jonah hart]

My mum's as a chest infection and been given antibiotics but the doctor as told her to go to the hospital for a chest Xray!
He told her there's nothing to worry about but she is worried.
Is this just a compulsory thing the doctors do now?
As anyone else been told to do this?
Any advice would be grateful x

[Mamyalynne]

It will give additional information and show if there's any pneumonia for example.

You both shouldn't worry at this stage.

[jonah hart]

Thankyou mamyalynne x

[Mamyalynne]

Let us know how things go.

[jonah hart]

I will do, thankyou x

[Buenchico]

My friend recently has a chest infection and he too was advised to have an X-ray. Just like your mother, he started worrying.

Then the X-ray showed a shadow and he started talking about his will and funeral arrangements etc, obviously assuming the worst.

He had to go back for another X-ray a fortnight later and by then he'd totally convinced himself that the radiographers would find something really nasty. It was totally clear ;-)

[jno]

it would be nice if they said what the X-ray was for; patients deserve to be told. I had a similar one and the doctor told me they were looking for pnsumonia (and they found it).

[jonah hart]

Thankyou x
It's true, you automatically think the worse :( but ill show my mum your messages and hopefully they'll put her mind at ease a bit x

[RATTER15]

As a carer for the elderly, we come across chest infections fairly often. I can assure you it is fairly routine, not everybody gets an Xray, but many do, they usually go on to live long afterwards.

[Sqad]

"Is this just a compulsory thing the doctors do now?"

No, it isn't.

"As anyone else been told to do this?"

I am sure they have.

From your OP it is impossible to surmise anything.

[TonyV]

jonah I think its just a precautionary measure.

[jonah hart]

Hi sqad.
I work in a little corner shop and quite a few people of different ages had been saying they had to go for chest Xrays, that's what made me think its what doctors were doing now, with that and my worrying mind haha!
I really appreciate everyone's answers and your straight forward ness sqad x

[Sqad]

LOL....I think EVERYONE thinks the worse concerning their health.......when I was a med student, I thought i had a melanoma when doing skins, gonorrhea during VD (as it was called then) TB when I was doing chests and the only reprieve that i got from my fears of gloom was when I was doing Obs and Gynae.

[jonah hart]

Haha so its not just me (thank the lord) stupid, crazy over thinking.. Sheeesh x