Chronic Bronchitis
Bronchitis, like many disorders can be classified based on length of time someone has symptoms. Chronic bronchitis is considered long-lasting or long term. It is typically caused by exposure to smoking or other air pollutants. This type of bronchitis tends to stay around much longer and it's not unusual to have ongoing symptoms for months or years.
Acute bronchitis however, simply means short-term and is typical of many people who get the flu or other viral infections. An acute case of bronchitis typically clears up in days to weeks time span.
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Chronic bronchial infections are many times caused by environmental factors. These may include:
Exposure to dust
certain odors or fumes
smoking ( both primary and secondhand)
According to the Mayo Clinic, a well regarded medical facility, bronchitis can also be caused from stomach acid irritating for food pipe or esophagus. This is better known as acid reflux disease.
Chronic bronchitis is often associated with the yellow or green mucus that's coughed up a by the person with bronchitis. This is an indication an infection, because when the air passages or bronchial tubes become your tubes become inflamed, they produce the mucus that's been coughed up.
Some of the more common signs and symptoms of an upper respiratory infection, such as bronchitis may include...
Wheezing
Difficulty Breathing
Congestion
a Tight Feeling around the Chest
If you're dealing with bronchitis in a child, you can get them to take several deep breaths and listen to how they breathe. Wheezing often sounds as if there is an air leak, while breathing are holding their breath. Remember that wheezing is not necessarily dangerous, but is a symptom of an upper respiratory infection.
To gain faster relief, a person bronchitis should consider visiting the doctor to get medications for the infection. One medication given to my children was Loviscol®. It's used as a therapy for chronic respiratory tract disorders in children.
There is no cure for chronic bronchitis and many who don't smoke but continue to suffer ongoing respiratory infections need to consider changes in their environment to limit exposure to things that may trigger a pulmonary or lung related illness.
This is NOT the typical influenza or flu and bronchitis you might get from co workers. That type of bronchitis is the acute or short term variety typically caused by a viral or bacterial source.
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chronic bronchitis
- Immunotherapy -- Immunotherapy ( allergy shots ) is a form of preventive treatment of allergy to substances such as pollens, house dust mites, fungi and stinging insect venom. Immunotherapy involves giving gradually increasing doses of the substance, or allergen, to which the person is allergic. The incremental increases of the allergen cause the immune system to become less sensitive to the substance, perhaps by causing production of a particular blocking antibody, which reduces the symptoms of allergy when the substance is encountered in the future.
- Intubate / Intubation -- Procedure whereby an endotracheal tube is inserted through the nose or mouth into the trachea, through which oxygen is forcefully pumped by a ventilator. A cuff on the tracheal end inflates to create a tight seal in the trachea area (although the cuff isn't required with infants) and a tight-fitting mask is placed over the nose and mouth. This differs from a tracheotomy, in which a small incision is made in the neck area, near the Adam's Apple, through which a shorter, more rigid endotracheal tube and cuff are inserted. Intubation is required if an acute asthma attack is not responsive to medication. It's not pretty, for the patient or the parent.
- BronchoSaline -- Sterile saline solution sometimes required for dilution of albuterol (and other drugs) for nebulization.
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