Clinical symptoms and treatment approaches for acute bronchitis




Acute bronchitis is an inflammatory disease of the bronchi, the clinical features of which depend on how severe the inflammatory process is, as well as on the nature and prevalence of pathological changes.

As a rule, acute bronchitis begins in about the same way in all patients – there is a weak cough, sometimes accompanied by pain behind the sternum, they experience general malaise and weakness.

It should be noted that acute bronchitis, as a rule, develops against the background of acute viral diseases. In this case, patients are plagued by an obsessive cough at the very beginning of the disease. Moreover, coughing often interferes with rest during sleep, and in some children, compulsive coughing causes vomiting. A little later, sputum begins to leave with a cough, usually white-greenish in color, which indicates the development of a bacterial infection in the bronchi. Wet cough no longer causes such painful sensations in patients as dry cough, but intoxication continues to persist.

Another constant symptom of acute bronchitis is fever, with a viral infection the body temperature can reach 40 degrees and above. With the bacterial nature of the inflammation, the temperature, as a rule, remains at febrile levels.

Treatment approaches

Mainly, the treatment of the disease remains symptomatic, especially when it comes to viral forms. So, drugs are prescribed that lower body temperature if it rises above 38 degrees, expectorants.

But with bacterial forms, antibiotics are prescribed. They are used both for the treatment of acute inflammation, aggravated by a secondary bacterial infection, and for primary bacterial bronchitis. It should be noted that antibacterial therapy is never prescribed for preventive purposes, since proper symptomatic treatment of acute bronchitis caused by a viral infection can prevent the development of bacterial complications.

Taking antibacterial drugs should always be combined with prescribing probiotics, for example, Linex or Lactovit should be used. Also, with a long course of antibiotics, hepatoprotectors should be taken. The use of these drugs helps to prevent the development of dysbiosis, as well as medicinal hepatitis against the background of taking a large number of drugs.

In cases where acute bronchitis develops against the background of acute respiratory viral infections, antiviral drugs such as Arbidol are prescribed. transescort.org
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