How distinguish between acute bronchitis and chronic bronchitis?

How distinguish between acute bronchitis and chronic bronchitis?

Chronic bronchitis and acute bronchitis easier to distinguish between the two, according to the following three areas identified.
(1) history: the incidence of acute bronchitis in general before without a history of bronchitis, that is, without chronic cough, sputum, such as breathing and history. And chronic bronchitis are the past history of the respiratory tract.
(2) course and symptoms: rapid onset of acute bronchitis, started to dry cough, cough after Nongxing present phlegm or sputum. After the expansion sternum accompanied nausea or pain. Systemic symptoms such as fever in more than three to five days, improved, but the cough, sputum symptoms often lasted two to three weeks before the resumption. And chronic bronchitis while long-term, repeated and gradually increase to highlight the symptoms of cough, with expectoration. Expectoration symptoms and infection-related or not, when the light at the heavy. Can be associated with breathing, protracted course.
(3) complications: acute bronchitis and more without obstructive pulmonary emphysema and pulmonary heart disease, chronic bronchitis developed to a certain stage with the disease