Clinton had been resting for three days in her NY home and will return to the campaign trail Thursday.
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It also said Clinton has been evaluated by Dr Bardack several times, including today, since she “became overheated and dehydrated and felt dizzy on Sunday at the 9/11 Memorial event”.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign released additional medical information regarding the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee’s health after details of her having been diagnosed with pneumonia emerged earlier this week.
Clinton traveled to North Carolina on Thursday for her first campaign event after she almost collapsed at the memorial service on Sunday.
However, her physician, Dr Lisa Bardack, said Clinton “is in excellent mental condition”. As Clinton traveled over the next several days her congestion worsened and she developed a cough.
Clinton, according to the letter released on Wednesday, takes the blood thinner Coumadin and thyroid medication, CNN reported.
Earlier on Wednesday, Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Sen.
Clinton, according to spokesman Nick Merrill, spent all three days off the campaign trail at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y, where a steady stream of flowers were seen delivered to the house.
It was not until hours later that Clinton’s campaign released a statement from Bardack revealing the pneumonia diagnosis.
Mrs Clinton is scheduled to address the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute dinner in Washington on Thursday evening and appear on The Tonight Show on Friday.
The US Secretary of State John Kerry has told Sky News he is “absolutely convinced” Hillary Clinton is up to being president after her health scare.
“She is recovering well with antibiotics and rest”, Bardack wrote.
The Republican nominee, meanwhile, handed over a one-page summary of a recent physical exam to the celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz while taping an episode of Oz’s talk show.
Mrs Clinton had planned to campaign on Wednesday in Las Vegas. Former President Bill Clinton will headline that event in her place.
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Clinton’s health became a sudden focus of the presidential race after she abruptly left the event commemorating the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in NY and was later filmed stumbling and being helped into a van by her aides. The main source of information about Trump’s health thus far has come from a widely mocked letter from his longtime physician declaring he would be the healthiest president in history. Bornstein later said the letter took him only five minutes to write.
