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Bronchitis
Bronchitis is an inflammation of the air passages between the nose and the lungs, including the windpipe or trachea and the larger air tubes of the lung that bring air in from the trachea (bronchi), restricting air flow to and from the lungs. Acute, or short term, bronchitis is usually a viral infection, but can also be a bacterial infection and can heal without complications. Chronic, or long term, bronchitis is a sign of serious lung disease that may be slowed, but cannot be cured.
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Will cephalexin help cough and congestion?
Probably not. Cold sores are caused by a virus you should use antiviral treatment like Lysine or Abreva. That medication is used to help treat bacterial infections and pneumonia it won't do any thing for viruses. See related link for more information.
What is the recommended dosage of amoxicillin for a 110 lb boy with bronchitis?
Bronchitis is usually viral and not responsive to antibiotics. In the more unusual bacterial cases, the causes are not responsive to amoxicillin but require other antibiotics for treatment. Be responsible and see your health care provider for an appropriate treatment. Random use of antibiotics is one of the contributors to drug-reistant strains.
Red color to phlegm means that blood is coming from somewhere. Somehow, some small blood vessels have broken. It can be just a small streak of red up to all red with clots. If it continues and gets worse; see the doctor.
How do you tell the difference between an allergy cough and a bronchitis or pneumonia cough?
Bronchitis often has a colored flam while allergies are clear.
Where is bronchitis located in the body?
Bronchioles are located in the lungs. They branch off of the bronchi.
What do you do with bad foot odor?
If you have bad foot odor, then the first thing that you should do is to keep them clean. After that to prevent it, you want to keep your feet dry. This can be done by using a foot powder, and also by wearing shoes that breathe. If they don't breathe, then your feet will continue to sweat with no place for them to evaporate and dry off.
How can you get a herbal remedy for bronchitis without using medicine or antibiotics?
Yes, there are over the counter medications that can help you with your chronic bronchitis. You can try taking daily medications like Zyrtec or Claritin. If you feel congested, try cough medication or products like Dayquil and Nyquil.
The effects are you start to hack and cough and sometimes you get apain in your chest. (I had this once.) It take about a month for it to go away. But, get some medicine and take it. This helps your sickness. You can't die from bronchitis unless it turns into pnemonia.
Can you take keflex for bronchitis?
Acute bronchitis is usually viral, and does not get better faster with antibiotics.
What can be done to help bronchitis?
Help for Bronchitis:
Most often acute bronchitis is caused by a virus. So, antibiotics will not help, and, since we have a problem in the US with resistant bacteria from overuse of antibiotics already, unless your doctor recommends them (because he has diagnosed the problem to be bronchitis caused by bacterial infection), you should not ask or push the doctor to give them to you, it is just a waste of money and can worsen the problem of resistant bacteria. Although they shouldn't, sometimes doctors prescribe antibiotics merely to appease the patient's persistent request for them.
Other things you can do to help bronchitis symptoms depend on the cause. Acute bronchitis can be caused, as mentioned above, by viral or bacterial infections, fungal infections (rarely), and acute irritation such as severe allergic responses or smoke inhalation from a fire.
Chronic (recurring) bronchitis is usually caused by allergies, irritation from cigarette smoking, or from occupational exposure to irritants such as various dusts, fibers, coal dust, or asbestos. It is also common in patients with other lung conditions such as asthma, obstructive pulmonary disease, or cystic fibrosis where there are inflamed or constricted bronchial tubes which don't allow proper aeration or movement of thick secretions.
All cigarette smoking should be stopped as well as any exposure to other irritants, and an over-the-counter cough medicine, especially one containing guaifenesin to help loosen and move secretions (such as Robitussin), may be all that is required. If the exposure is to second-hand cigarette smoke, the bronchitis will typically subside fairly quickly once the irritant is removed.
To reduce inflammation and help with aches or pains associated with any form of bronchitis, Tylenol or other over-the-counter anti-inflammatory agents (e.g., Advil, Aspirin) can be very effective.
Fluid intake for proper hydration is important, especially if there is a fever associated with the bronchitis, to give the body moisture for the lung and bronchial tissue and to help loosen thick secretions, . Humidifying the air with a vaporizer or spending time in the humid air after a shower or bath can similarly aid in the loosening and removal of thick secretions.
Medical Professionals may add other medications besides antibiotics when indicated, such as bronchodilators to open (dilate) the airways and prescription-strength cough suppressants. Report the onset of fever, changes in amount or color of secretions, chest pain or other symptoms to them during the course of treatment, because, even if the cause initially was an irritant or allergy, secondary bacterial infections are not uncommon.
Fungal infections need special medications and treatments by a medical professional, usually a specialist.
What helps bronchitis is:
not smoking
Can you be on antibiotics for bronchitis before surgery?
Can you have back surgery while recovering from bronchitis
How does smoking cause stomach cancer?
When you breathe in the cigarette smoke while smoking cigarettes or pipes, you swallow the smoke. The smoke in tobacco products has been linked to many forms of cancer.
i agree 100% with this comment i have done some research and some test im not a doctor or a scientist but i have discovered that pot smoke does not stay in your lungs like cigg smoke would cuz weed dosent not have any of that man made crap in it for the most part weed is all natural unless someone puts stuff in that that should be there and weed does not have tar in it the resin is like that but i belive that weed some does not stick to your mucus cells or mucus membrans in your lungs the way cig smoke does that's why you cough it out
the black flem is normal for chronic smoker mainly, marijuana. its actually a good thing unlike cigarettes the black flem is coughed out of the lungs instead of kept inside where they do the most damage.
Does penicillin cover bronchitis?
Maybe. Bronchitis can be either due to a virus infection or a bacterial infection. Tests will need to be done to determine which type of bronchitis you have. In the case of a viral infection causing bronchitis, penicillin will not work. In the case of a bacterial infection causing bronchitis, penicillin may work.
Antibiotics are generally used on bacterial infections, not viral.
What is bronchitis and what causes it?
* drinking fluids is very important because fever causes the body to lose fluid faster. * you can spread bronchitis by coughing and passing germs to others or pooping on someone * drinking fluids is very important because fever causes the body to lose fluid faster. * you can spread bronchitis by coughing and passing germs to others or pooping on someone
- International protection was provided to seahorses on May 15th, 2004.
- Seahorses differ in color, some are orange, red, yellow, green and even grey.
- Zebra stripes and spots, are two patterns that seahorses come in.
- A herd, is the term a group of seahorses are known as.
- Seahorses have an interior skeleton.
- Seahorses are unable to curl their tail backwards.
- Seahorses belong to the Teleost suborder or bony fish group.
- The average lifespan of a seahorse in the wild is estimated to be 1 to 5 years.
- Seahorses beat their dorsal fins back and forth to propel themselves through the water in an upright position.
- The pectoral fins are used to control steering and turning.
- The food that seahorses eat pass into their digestive systems very quickly as they do not have a stomach and teeth. As the digestion procedure in seahorses is so quick they need to constantly eat to live.
- Daphnia, cyclops, larvae or mysids are small living things that seahorses feed on.
- Seahorses have a single mate for life. Every morning, they come together, dance, change their color, twirl around with linked tails and then separate for the rest of the day.
- While mating, seahorses utter musical sounds.
- Mating is usually done under a full moon.
- Seahorses are the only animals in the entire animal kingdom in which the male has babies. The female seahorse deposits the eggs into the male's small pouch, these eggs are then fertilized by the male.
- These little creatures are at risk because about twenty-five million of them are being traded around the world, in a span of a year.
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Is bronchitis transmitted through kissing?
Bronchitis is irritation in the lungs. In 85% of the cases, it is caused by smoking or passive smoking. It is inflammation in your bronchi, but it isn't spreadable to other human beings.
What is the root for Bronchitis?
Either a germ or a virus.
There are other forms of bronchitis which are not caused by germs or viruses but from chemicals and industrial exposure such as asbestos, or from keeping birds and suchlike. But they are given different names such as pthisis, ornithosis, psitticosis, asbestosis, and the like.
The word 'bronchitis' is used only to describe an infection of the bronchi caused by germs and viruses.
How long a person can live with chronic bronchitis?
It depends how serious it is. People can live a normal life span if it is properly treated and managed.
Should you take a hot shower for your bronchitis?
Actually (medically) not bad though it is forbidden by family members.
Which steroids treat bronchitis?
Cortizone-based steroids are often prescribed to calm down erratic lung function. Bronchitis, an inflammation of the bronchia, if it is accompanied by infection, fluids, is also treated with anti-biotics, lest it grown into pneumonia.
Prolonged used of corisol steroids, however can damage individual organs, as well as the ability of multiple organs to work in concert.
Commn diseases associated with respiratory system?
THE COMMON RESPIRATORY DISEASES ARE -COMMON COLD, COUGH, ASTHMA, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE ( DUE TO SMOKING ), TUBERCULOSIS (ESPECIALLY IN INDIA), PNEUMONIA, PLEURAL EFFUSION, LUNG CARCINOMA ETC.
The respiratory system is a group of organs that help you breath. Therefore it consists of the airways, ie, nasal passages, the trachea (windpipe), the lungs, pleura (pleura is the double membrane covering of the lung and respiratory muscles.
Diseases of any of these parts are termed as respiratory diseases.
They can be grouped into -congenital anomalies (present since birth), acquired diseases, and tumours.
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES (NOT SO COMMON)- agenesis or hypoplasia of lungs or its lobes, tracheal and bronchial atresia,stenosis, trabeoesophagial fistula etc.
ACQUIRED DISEASES- asthma, emphysema, bronchitis, bronchiectasis, pneumonia, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, pneumoconiosis, hypersensitivity pnemonitis, pulmonary edema, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary haemorrhage, Good-pasteur syndeome, pleural effusion, pneumothorax etc.
TUMOURS- benign and malignant tumours of the lung, pleura and various metastatic tumours.
Why are elderly more likely to develop respiratory infections and bronchitis?
The elderly have a less effective mucociliary escalator, as well as changes in their immune system. This causes this age group to be more at risk for the development of pneumonia
