Bronchitis/ Bronchitides are ignitions of the bronchi generally due to microbes

Bronchitis
Bronchitides are ignitions of the bronchi generally due to microbes: primarily bacteria, virus. It is either of acute bronchitides with like principal signs the fever and cough, or of chronic bronchitides with a persistent and producing cough.

Viral acute bronchitides

Viral bronchitis is accompanied, apart from cough, other clinical signs indicating a viral attack: fever, a sore throat, stopped nose, aches, headaches…

Cough is often dry, painful at the beginning of the disease then it becomes in a few days, fattier, with glaires.

Apart from drugs cough mixtures to decrease cough, the antipyrétiques ones to fight against the fever, of drops to emerge the nose, collutoire to decrease the pain of the throat, there is no treatment to treat the viral infection itself. This one will disappear at the end of a few days.

It often happens that a cough persists several weeks without the patient being frankly sick. It is necessary all the same to seek a bacterial superinfection or chronic bronchitis which is settling especially if the person smokes.

Bacterial acute bronchitides

If it is bacterial bronchitis, there exist signs of infection with fever and signs of bronchial attack of which the cough which is often producing: spittles are more or less purulent.

It is sometimes the superinfection of viral bronchitis. It is necessary to diagnose it and prescribe antibiotics over several days.

Chronic bronchitis

It is a chronic ignition of the bronchi; it is generally due to the tobacco.

It is bronchitis which trails several months in spite of the adequate treatments and in particular the correct antibiotic catch. One speaks about chronic bronchitis when the patient has bronchitis during more than 3 months of continuation, 2 years of continuation.

Do you smoke?

The first question which is put in front of a person who has bronchitis which drag will be: “Do you Smoke? ” Indeed, the tobacco is responsible for good number of bronchitides and chronic bronchitides; it involves a chronic irritation of the bronchi, a brittleness of the mucous membranes and microbial infections frequent.

An essential assessment

An assessment will be made to evaluate the importance of the bronchial attack, the presence of a possible respiratory insufficiency with a reduction in the pulmonary capacity which involves breathlessness with the even tiny physical exercise (walk, rise of the staircases…), the search for cancerous or pre-cancerous lesions.

Councils

Chronic bronchitis is generally due to the tobacco. It is a subject which smokes much since many years. These smokers are invited to stop smoking, without speaking about the evolution towards the chronic respiratory insufficiency, the risk of degeneration of the chronic lesions towards a cancer really exists, it is higher when the signs of bronchial irritation are present.

To retain

Acute bronchitis is an infectious illness which should be treated consequently.

It is necessary to take stock of chronic bronchitis, to evaluate its importance, to seek a cancerous lesion; it is strongly advised with the patient to stop smoking in order to stop the evolution towards the chronic respiratory insufficiency or a cancer.