Bronchitis
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Definition
Bronchitis is the inflammation of the bronchi. It may develop
suddenly, following a head cold (acute bronchitis), or it may persist or
return regularly for many years, causing progressive degeneration of the
bronchi and lungs (chronic bronchitis). Certain people are more susceptible
than others; Men are more of a target to bronchitis than women, out
numbering them 10 to 1 -- the reasons are unclear. Of course smokers are
50 times more likely to get chronic bronchitis than non-smokers. Acute
bronchitis is a bacteria or virus infection, often following a cold
smoking. People who have acute bronchitis usually have a mild fever,
soreness under breast bone, irritated by coughing. First they have a dry
cough then the cough later brings up green and yellow mucus. The cough may
persist to 4 to 6 weeks. Chronic bronchitis is produced by other chronic
problem: sinusitis, smoking, TB, etc. The Bronchi becomes thick, inelastic,
and accumulate mucus and pus in lower part of lungs instead of bringing
discharges up and out. The result is chronic cough, shortness of breath,
sometimes spasm, and frequent infection.
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Symptoms
In acute bronchitis, the basic symptoms are a head cold, fever and
chills, running nose, aching muscles and possibly back pains. This is soon
followed by the obvious persistent cough. At first the cough is dry and
racking and eventually becomes phlegmy. The persistent cough is worse at
night than during the day, and when the person breathes in smoke and fumes.
The main symptoms most recognized in chronic bronchitis is, again, a
cough, with sputum, often occurring in paroxysms. Other symptoms in
chronic bronchitis are dependant on how much, or how...
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