📋 Reference sheet · Chest, throat and sinuses

Acute cough and chest signs: antibiotic, back-up, or none

An acute cough. Self care, a back-up prescription, pneumonia, and the chest after a recent hospital stay.

One page, every threshold with its number and unit. Reviewed and updated by practising UK GPs. Last reviewed 7 Oct 2026.

This sheet puts the whole decision on one page: the thresholds that change what you do, each with its number and unit, and the sources each one was checked against.

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Related Ocean Article: Cough · also Acute Cough in Children, Whooping Cough (Pertussis), Cough - Acute with Chest Signs in Children, Common Cold, Exclusion from School (Common Infections Guidance), Asthma. Part of the GP reference sheets, result interpretation one page per test or finding.