What is chronic bronchitis?
Chronic bronchitis, also known as chronic bronchitis, is a chronic inflammation of our trachea, bronchial mucosa and its surrounding tissues. This chronic inflammation is recurrent, the main manifestation is coughing, coughing up sputum, some people also with asthma, generally speaking, after the symptoms appear oral or intravenous infusion treatment will reduce the symptoms. But the nasty thing about it is that it can't be cured. Repeated episodes every year, continue to damage the body's airways and lung tissue, with the progress of the disease, often complicate obstructive emphysema, and then pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary heart disease. Chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pulmonary heart disease is known as the trilogy of lung disease.
When your cough appears the following three characteristics, you need to pay attention.
First, long-term, repeated, aggravated cough.
Early only in the winter and spring when the climate change is intense or smoking, inhaling irritating air after the onset of summer or quit smoking after the cough to reduce or disappear. Later, it slowly developed into a year-round cough, aggravated in winter and spring. Often the morning cough phlegm is heavier, not coughing during the day, before going to bed a violent cough, phlegm coughing out of the chest feel comfortable, cough relief.
Second, cough sputum
Generally white sputum, if the combined infection, sputum into mucopurulent or yellow pus sputum, and coughing worse than before, the amount of sputum followed by a significant increase in the sputum, and occasionally see blood in the sputum. Generally more sputum in the morning, mainly because after a night's sleep, the bronchial cavity of the accumulated sputum in the wake up position change, and stimulation of sputum.
Third, wheezing and shortness of breath
Some patients have wheezing due to bronchospasm. If the disease progresses to emphysema, the patient will feel that the air can not catch, also called shortness of breath.
How to prevent chronic bronchitis?
Exercise to improve disease resistance. Measures to improve the human respiratory resistance is mainly "three exercise", that is, through physical exercise, cold exercise and respiratory exercise, strengthen the body, to achieve the purpose of less or no disease.
1. Quit smoking. For patients with chronic bronchitis, they should quit smoking, and after quitting smoking, the symptoms can be reduced or disappeared, and the condition can be relieved, or even cured.
2. Improve environmental and industrial hygiene. Improve environmental and industrial hygiene. Do a good job of ventilation and dust control, eliminate harmful dust, smoke and irritating gases on the respiratory tract stimulation.
3. Pay attention to hygiene and avoid bacterial infection. Strengthen personal hygiene, avoid contact with various pathogenic bacteria and inhalation. Patients with chronic bronchitis prevention at the same time, the application of expectorants and cough suppressants to improve symptoms.
Can chronic bronchitis be infectious? Of course it can't, we don't really need to worry too much, usually as long as you take care of your body, in fact, there is nothing terrible about this disease, I hope you have a healthy body, away from the bronchitis!
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