What symptom is bronchitis?

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As a chronic respiratory disease, the incidence of bronchitis to the patient's friends to bring trouble is continuous. In the process of illness, patients with bronchitis need to endure the suffering of pain, so what are the symptoms of bronchitis? Let's do some related introduction.

What symptom is bronchitis?

The common symptoms of bronchitis include cough, asthma, expectoration and repeated infection. For bronchitis, long-term, repeated and gradually aggravating cough is the most prominent manifestation of the disease. Mild cases only occur in winter and spring, especially before and after getting up in the morning. Cough is less in the daytime. In summer and autumn, cough is relieved or disappeared. Severe patients cough in all seasons, especially in winter and spring, day and night.

When the respiratory tract infection, due to congestion and edema of bronchiolar mucosa, sputum obstruction and bronchial stenosis, can produce asthma (wheezing) symptoms. Wheezing occurred in the throat during breathing and wheezing occurred in the lung during auscultation. This type of asthma is called asthmatic bronchitis clinically; But its attack condition is not like the typical bronchial asthma.

The expectoration sputum of bronchitis patients is generally white mucous foam, and it is more frequent in the morning, often due to sticky and not easy to cough out. After infection or cold, the symptoms quickly worsen, the amount of sputum increases, the viscosity increases, or yellow purulent sputum or accompanied by wheezing, occasionally with blood in the sputum due to severe cough.

matters needing attention

To quit smoking, patients with chronic bronchitis should not only quit smoking first, but also avoid passive smoking, because the chemical substances in smoke, such as tar, nicotine, cyanuric acid, can act on the autonomic nerve and cause bronchospasm, thus increasing respiratory resistance; In addition, it can damage the epithelial cells and cilia of bronchial mucosa, increase the secretion of bronchial mucosa, reduce the purification function of lung, easily cause the propagation of pathogenic bacteria in lung and bronchus, and lead to the occurrence of chronic bronchitis.