The bronchitis is Inflammation of the lungs most often caused by microbes, mainly bacteria, viruses. They are either with acute bronchitis as major signs of fever and cough or chronic bronchitis with a persistent cough and producer.
Bronchitis acute viral
Viral bronchitis accompanied, outside of cough, other clinical signs indicating an attack viral fever, sore throat, stuffy nose, muscle aches, headache. The cough is often dry and painful at the beginning of the disease then it becomes in a few days, more fat, with mucus. Outside of antitussive medications to reduce cough, antipyretic to fight against the fever drops to lead the nose, mouth wash to reduce the pain of the throat, there is no treatment for treating the infection virus itself. It disappear after a few days. Often a cough persists for several weeks that the patient is frankly sick. It must still seek a secondary bacterial infection or chronic bronchitis which is being established especially if the person smokes.
The acute bacterial bronchitis
If it is a bacterial bronchitis, there are signs of infection with fever, chills, fatigue and signs of lung damage with a cough that is often productive: the sputum is more or less purulent. It is usually due to pneumonia. Sometimes superinfection of viral bronchitis. We must diagnose and prescribe antibiotics for several days.
Chronic bronchitis
It is a chronic inflammation of the bronchi and is usually due to tobacco. In fact, we speak rather of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and no longer bonchite chronic.
Do you smoke?
The first question that is asked before a person has bronchitis, which is lagging behind: “Do you smoke? In fact, tobacco is responsible for many of bronchitis and chronic bronchitis, it causes a chronic irritation of the airways, mucosal fragility and frequent bacterial infections.