What to do if your cough worsens at midnight with radiation pneumonitis

Radiation pneumonia can be treated by symptomatic treatment, hormone treatment, antibiotic treatment and so on when coughing and sputum aggravation occurs at midnight. 1. Symptomatic treatment: When the cough worsens at midnight, patients with radiation pneumonitis can be treated with symptomatic treatment through the use of cough-suppressing and expectorant medicines, commonly used aminoglutethimide, bromhexine, etc., and dextromethorphan, codeine, etc., can be given to those who have a severe dry cough. 2. Hormone therapy: Hormone therapy is one of the main treatments to deal with radiation pneumonitis, which can prevent further expansion of lung damage and restore the function of alveoli with less damage, commonly used are prednisone, dexamethasone and so on. 3. Antibiotic treatment: radiological pneumonia with obvious symptoms of exudation, such as the presence of bacterial infection can be prescribed by the application of antibiotics, such as amoxicillin, levofloxacin and other treatments. Radioactive pneumonia patients, should go to the hospital in a timely manner, according to the condition of the doctor’s instructions for individualized treatment. The above drugs need to be standardized use under the guidance of a doctor.