Can you use antibiotics for emphysema?

Whether antibiotics can be used for emphysema depends mainly on the patient’s symptoms. If the patient is in the stable stage of emphysema, without obvious cough, coughing, wheezing and dyspnea, antibiotics are usually not needed. If the patient is in the acute exacerbation of emphysema, with obvious cough, coughing sputum, coughing pus sputum, and obvious wet rales can be heard in the lungs, and the blood test of leukocytes, C-reactive protein and other inflammation-related indicators are significantly higher than normal, antibiotics must be used. You can choose the relevant antibacterial drugs according to the sputum culture examination, such as penicillin, three generations of cephalosporins or respiratory fluoroquinolones, etc. Through these drugs for anti-infection treatment, after effective treatment, the symptoms of emphysema can be significantly relieved.