4/29/2008

What are chronic bronchitis clinical manifestations

What are chronic bronchitis clinical manifestations
Slow onset of chronic bronchitis and more, the longer course, repeated acute and heavier. The main symptoms are chronic cough, sputum, breathing. Minor symptoms begin, such as smoking, exposure to harmful gases, overworked, climate change or cooling after a cold, cause acute or aggravating. Or by the upper respiratory tract infection deferred Buyu, the evolution of development for chronic bronchitis. When the summer climate warming could be more natural ease.

(A) cough: bronchial mucosal congestion, edema, or bronchial secretions build up in the cavity can cause a cough. Depending on the severity of cough illness may be generally heavier morning coughing during the day from the lighter the night before bed with RUF cough or sputum elimination.

(B) expectoration: As sleep at night after the lumen, sputum volume, to be vice sympathetic relative excitement, bronchial secretions increase, so get up after the change in posture or caused to stimulate Expectoration, Expectoration more often to the early morning, sputum general For the white foam of the size or mucus, even blood can be. If so serious and repeated hemoptysis, suggesting that serious lung diseases such as cancer. With acute bacterial infection, mucus into Nongxing, cough and sputum volume increases.

(C) breathing or short breath: breathing a bronchial spasm of chronic bronchitis, can cause breathing, accompanied with Asthma Wong Yin. Early in no short breath. Recurrent few years, with obstructive pulmonary emphysema, may be accompanied by varying degrees of severity of short breath, the first post-Labor or asthma, severe asthma, are very dynamic, self-care difficult life.

In short, cough, sputum, chronic bronchitis asthma as the main symptoms, and its type, and whether complications of disease, may have different clinical manifestations.

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