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Respiratory infection testing
My mom has had a respiratory infection for almost 2 weeks so she went back to the doctor again. The doctor said she would not test because it had been too long since the infection started. But couldn’t there be a secondary infection that had started later than the first? And could you not test for that, if the secondary infection had only started two or three days earlier? Thank you!
1 Answer
It might be too long to test for COVID or influenza, but there can still be bacteria that could be identified from a sputum culture. Blood tests and chest X-ray could also indicate if there is still an active infection of some kind.