Saturday, March 8, 2008
Children who suffered from chronic bronchitis
Chronic bronchitis is a common adult chronic respiratory disease, then, whether the children have chronic bronchitis? The answer is yes. If children with acute bronchitis cough, expectoration more than two-three weeks will be a slow process to consider. In recent years, many experts have proposed that it should be persistent cough with or without breathlessness over three months as more suitable for chronic bronchitis. In addition to children with chronic bronchitis repeated coughing, breathlessness holdback performance, almost always accompanied by a runny nose, nasal congestion, Opening night respiratory symptoms. Some 40% of children with pulmonary hear wheezing. Pediatric Airway thin and soft, vulnerable to the influence of various factors lead to airway constriction, resulting in wheezing. Children with chronic bronchitis is not due to a single cause may be related to immune function is low, Congenital bronchial foreign bodies and bronchial pulmonary dysplasia and other factors. Thus, they encounter suspected of children with chronic bronchitis, the common factor from the above into consideration and immune function, Chest X-ray examination, in a clear cause, to avoid a general consultation for chronic bronchitis, simply blind antibiotic treatment. Children through chest X-ray inspections, or bronchoscopy investigation, once it became clear that the children with chronic bronchitis and its etiology, to actively remove the causes and anti-infection, symptomatic treatment, the majority of patients can be cured, the prognosis is good.
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