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Acute Bronchitis Treatment - An Overview

The term bronchitis referred to the inflammation of the main air passages of the lung. Bronchitis may be acute, if it occurred suddenly and short-lived. The chronic bronchitis will long last for more than 3 months in a year and have cough with blood streaked mucus and often recurs. The viral infection follows the acute bronchitis in acute cases. The viral respiratory infection first affects the nose, then to he sinuses and finally to the throat. Sometimes bacterial infection also being overlapped the viral infection because the inflamed bronchus acts as a good platform for the growth of secondary bacterial infection. The health care providers can diagnose acute bronchitis very easily simply by hearing the rattling sound in the upper airways of the lung through stethoscope. The persons who are at the age extremes (infants, children and elderly people), smoking and pulmonary infection are the predisposing factors for the acute bronchitis.

During the acute phase of bronchitis - suffering from fever, sneezing, wheezing, and the patient should take rest and the room should be kept warm. Vaporizer and the steam inhalers from a sink full of hot water also being tried by some patients to get rid of this acute bronchitis. Don’t use the over-the-counter medicine for this condition because sometimes it may aggravate the condition and transformed the condition to pneumonia. The acute bronchitis associated with productive cough brings out the phlegm. The color, thickness and volume of the phlegm should be noticed and based on that the doctor prescribes the broad-spectrum antibiotics at least for 10 days to fight the bacterial infection. Diet with proteins to the over weight persons also sought by some of the physicians to avoid excess stress on heart. Bronchodilators and ant cholinergic drugs are being widely used to dilate the air spaces in the lungs and drying up the lungs respectively. Some doctors prescribe steroids also to reduce the inflammation in the lungs.

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