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| What are the differences between bronchitis and pneumonia? |
Bronchitis is a chronic disease. With the pollution of the environment and the decline of our own resistance, more and more chronic diseases make us more headaches. If bronchitis is not treated in time, it will easily aggravate long-term cough and wheezing. Symptoms
2. Pneumonia
Pneumonia is immediately manifested in relation to bronchitis and requires timely treatment because pneumonia is a viral disease. If it is not treated in time, it will also cause great harm to the body. According to authoritative statistics, more than 90% Patients with pneumonia are caused by pneumococci.
Below we focus on the different manifestations of bronchitis and pneumonia
1. The location of the disease is different
Pneumonia occurs mostly in the inflammation of the terminal airways, alveoli, and interstitial lungs, and bronchitis is inflammation that occurs in the trachea, bronchial mucosa, and other surrounding tissues.
2. The cause of the disease is different
Bronchitis is mostly caused by repeated infections of viruses or bacteria. Pneumonia is not only a virus or a bacterial infection. It also includes fungi, parasites, and physical and chemical factors such as radiation and inhalation of foreign bodies.
3. The symptoms after infection are different
Bronchitis is divided into chronic and acute points. Chronic bronchitis will have repeated infections, repeated coughing, coughing, and even blood in the sputum, and asthma symptoms; acute bronchitis is the phenomenon of upper respiratory tract infection in the early stage of the disease, early sputum is not much, 2-3 After the day, the sputum will change from mucoid to purulent. When coughing, there will be symptoms such as nausea and vomiting. Especially the vomiting of children is more obvious. Auscultation will hear wheezing and wet rales, but filming lungs. There is no abnormality in the department.
About one-third of patients with pneumonia will develop upper respiratory tract infections at the beginning, and most of them will not appear. The onset of pneumonia is more urgent, and the general course of disease is 7-10 days. It is not said to be Frequent, recurrent episodes, cough and cough in patients with pneumonia. With the increase of cough, some patients may have symptoms of chest pain, and severe breathing may occur.
4. Different treatment methods
Bronchitis often takes anti-inflammatory, cough and phlegm and other drugs, but pneumonia should be aimed at bacterial or viral, bacterial antibiotic treatment is effective, but viral antibiotics are not effective.
Bronchitis and pneumonia which is serious
Pneumonia refers to inflammation of the lungs. The general symptoms are heavier than bronchitis. Children often show impotence, loss of appetite, or irritability, rapid breathing and superficial; severe and inflammatory children have difficulty breathing, nose flapping (breathing) At the time of the two nostrils, the muscles of the outside of the nose, the three-concave disease (referring to the upper sternal fossa, the intercostal space and the lower part of the rib arch with the inhalation downward depression), the lips and the finger (toe) nail cover and other symptoms. Although children with bronchitis have cough and fever, they generally have better spirits, no difficulty in breathing, and no cyanosis in their lips. As for whether or not they have a fever, they cannot be used as a basis for distinguishing between the two. Newborns, premature babies or frail children with pneumonia often do not have a fever. They only show refusal to breast or cough after eating milk, foaming at the mouth, difficulty breathing, and bruises.
In the early stage of acute bronchitis, symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection often appear. Patients usually have clinical manifestations such as nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat and hoarseness. The systemic symptoms are mild, but low fever, chills, weakness, itchiness in the throat, irritating cough and pain in the back of the chest. There is not much sputum in the early stage, but the sputum is not easy to cough up. After 2 to 3 days, the sputum can be changed from mucinous to mucopurulent. Patients with cold, inhalation of cold air or irritating gases can exacerbate coughing or induce coughing. Coughing is often more pronounced in the morning or at night. Cough can also be paroxysmal, sometimes persistent cough.
Relatively speaking, pneumonia is more serious than bronchitis. The area of bronchitis and bronchitis is in the tracheobronchial area, while the pneumococcal tissue is infected by pneumonia. The degree of pneumonia is often heavier than bronchitis. The treatment should keep up.
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