Bronchitis and Cough Should be Treated Immediately

Cold days, air polluted by harmful gases, as well as long exposure to tobacco smoke, provide very good soil for bronchitis. Sore throat, cough, high temperature, as well as chest and muscle pain, are the most frequent symptoms of bronchitis. Smokers, people prone to allergies, people suffering from asthma, diabetes, heart diseases, as well as heartburn, are more prone to bronchitis.

- Acute infective bronchitis is often preceded by a cold or some other inflammation of upper airways. Bronchitis is caused by virus or bacterial infections. Most often, these are seasonal flu viruses; however, in bronchitis, the infection moves lower and deeper into the respiratory tract. This infection causes inflammatory processes in the bronchi and tracheae, leading to production and accumulation of mucus in the lungs, most often coupled with strong and irritating cough - says Dr Milan Ljubinković, WB (Western Balkans) OTC/CHC Portfolio Sales Manager from Hemofarm.

Cough is dry in the beginning, but increasing amounts of thick mucus appear soon, while expectoration is becoming ever more difficult.

- Inflamed bronchi provoke creation of large quantities of mucus, which climbs up when you cough. Cough can often be very exhausting, so some patients can feel a burning pain behind the chest bone which increases during coughing. It is therefore important for the patient to also be given medicines that effect the breaking down of mucus in the airways in order to facilitate and accelerate expulsion of accumulated mucus, which creates favourable environment in the inflamed bronchi for reproduction of bacteria, which can lead to secondary bacterial infection as well as other complications - explained our interviewee.

Adequately treated, acute bronchitis is cured within a week or two, although cough may persist for three weeks, or even longer.

- It is very important to start the treatment with the onset of initial symptoms, because one of the most frequent consequences and complications of untreated bronchitis is pneumonia. In the course of treatment of bronchitis, one should avoid smoking and staying in smoky rooms, and reduce physical activity and getting tired. The main objective of therapy is preserving the optimal airways function and their return to the original, healthy status. As a consequence of untreated or inadequately treated bronchitis, the infection can quite probably be expected to evolve into a chronic, more severe form of bronchitis - warns Doctor Ljubinković.

If the infection evolves into a chronic bronchitis, breathing becomes difficult, coupled with fatigue and wheezing, the cough is getting worse and complications can be very serious.

- Accumulated mucus in the lungs becomes purulent, accompanied with persistent productive cough, which often causes pain at expectoration. It is very important for the patient to get a product, such as Bisolvon, in the course of his/her therapy, which is used for dissolving mucus in acute and chronic bronchial and pulmonary diseases, which will efficiently help the breaking down of the harmful mucus, its expulsion and clearing of the lungs and bronchi. It is very dangerous if this purulent, sticky mucus stays longer because it can be a suitable soil for the development of very serious infections, including sepsis. It is therefore very important to treat bronchitis immediately and thus prevent any complications - warns Dr Milan Ljubinković form Hemofarm.