Bronchitis

Bronchitis: In bronchitis, bronchial tree of the patient get infected and swelled. Consequently air can not reach into the lungs freely. The patient feels breathing problem. This is the stage of acute bronchitis.

Symptoms: Fever, pain in the chest, cough, red eye, breathing problem are the symptoms of bronchitis.
How do people affected with bronchitis: The viruses that cause acute bronchitis are sprayed into the air or onto people’s hands when they cough. You can get acute bronchitis if you breathe in these viruses. You can also get it if you touch a hand that is coated with the viruses.

Acute bronchitis to chronic bronchitis: If the patient continue smoking and live in dust environment then acute bronchitis may turn to chronic bronchitis. Tuberculosis is curable but chronic bronchitis is incurable. In the primary stage it is not much painful but in the long run cough may be with blood. This type of patients is easily affected with the bronchitis virus.

Treatment of bronchitis: If the symptoms of the bronchitis arise, the patient should be very careful. He should gurgle with worm water. In most of the times acute bronchitis will go automatically after a week or two. Patient should take sufficient rest, consume fruit juice. If the symptoms persists for more than 2 weeks, if bad tasting fluid come up into patient’s mouth or he feels weak and trouble breathing doctor should be contacted . Generally doctors prescribe medicines that are usually used to treat asthma. These kinds of medicines help the bronchial tubes to open. Sometimes they suggest patients to use inhaler. An inhaler sprays the medicine into the bronchial tree.

So if you are a bronchitis patient first shun smoking, live in a dust free place, keep safe yourself from bronchitis virus- wash your hands.

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