Pulmonology

Bronchitis in adults - symptoms and treatment at home

Bronchitis is an inflammatory lesion of bronchial mucosa, as a result of which the drainage function of the bronchial tree is impaired. With illiterate treatment, it goes into a chronic stage and can be complicated by pneumonia, therefore it is important know the causes of its occurrence, the first symptoms and the basics of treating bronchitis at home in adults. Damage and inflammation of the bronchial tree can arise as an independent, isolated process (primary bronchitis) or develop as a c...

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Chronic bronchitis in adults: symptoms and treatment regimen

Chronic bronchitis is a diffuse inflammation of the bronchial mucosa, which engulfs the deep layers of the bronchus wall with the development of peribronchitis.It lasts for a long time with a change in the periods of exacerbations and remissions. This is one of the most common diseases of the respiratory system, which occurs mainly at the age of over 50 years; in men it is found 2-3 times more often than in women. The clinical significance of chronic bronchitis is very high, since the develo...

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Than to treat a dry cough in an adult at home

In most cases, coughing is a reflex protective reaction, by which the body gets rid of accumulated sputum and cleanses the airways.However, dry, unproductive cough causes discomfort and does not bring relief during the disease. In general, cough is a symptom typical of most inflammatory diseases of the respiratory system. It can also be a sign of an allergic reaction of the body. There are coughs of two kinds: wet cough with escaping phlegm; dry cough or unproductive. Wet cough, accompanie...

  • 21-Jun-2018
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Pertussis in children: symptoms and treatment, advice from Komarovsky

Pertussis is a bacterial disease transmitted by airborne droplets from a sick person to a healthy one. Bacteria during coughing fly out of the respiratory tract of the infected and through the nasal cavity penetrate the bronchial mucosa of a nearby person.There they irritate the receptors and cause an unrestrained cough, literally turning into vomiting. Vaccinations for whooping cough are started from the age of 3 months, together with vaccinations from diphtheria and tetanus - usually, DTP ...

  • 07-Jul-2018
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Obstructive bronchitis in children

Obstructive bronchitis is a disease of the upper respiratory tract, in which the mucous membranes of the trachea and bronchial tree are most actively affected. It can manifest itself in an acute form, acquire the characteristic features of chronic obstructive bronchitis and pass into bronchial asthma. In general, bacterial and viral infections are provoked by the development of the disease. Bronchi - a branched network of tubes, with different diameters, letting air in. He acts, passing thro...

  • 09-Jul-2018
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Bronchial asthma - symptoms and treatment, signs in adults

Bronchial asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases among the population of the whole planet. Asthma is treated or there is no open question. Even if you consider that at the moment it is diagnosed at an early stage and uses topical methods of treatment. What is asthma? This is a constantly present inflammatory disease of the airways, which is always accompanied by hyperreactivity of the bronchi. The main symptoms of asthma are attacks of suffocation or respiratory discomfort in the ...

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Treatment of an allergic cough, and its symptoms in children and adults

An allergic cough in a child or adult is one of the symptoms of an allergy. It appears for various reasons, because allergens affect the upper respiratory tract. Cough appears due to the inflammatory process in the trachea, bronchial system, throat. Allergic cough can have a paroxysmal character, then a person begins to cough. Causes Why does an allergic cough occur, and what is it? Most often the cause of coughing are allergens that can get into the respiratory tract: pollen, pet hair and o...

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Tuberculosis of the lungs in adults - symptoms and treatment

Lung tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by mycobacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), characterized by the formation of specific foci of inflammation in the affected tissues and a pronounced reaction of the organism. Recently, in most economically developed countries, the incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis and mortality from it decreased. But despite this, tuberculosis is still a widespread ailment, affecting, to a greater extent, teenagers, young children, adult women and the eld...

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Tuberculosis - Symptoms and First Signs

Depending on the location, individual characteristics of the body and the form of tuberculosis, the symptoms can be very diverse.If the symptoms of tuberculosis in adults are identified early, the disease is well treatable. Lately detected, neglected tuberculosis of the lungs - is often incurable. Tuberculosis - what is it? Infectious (capable of being transmitted from a sick person to a healthy one) a disease caused by a certain pathogen - bacteria of the genus Mycobacterium. In the XVII - ...

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Pleuritis of the lungs - what is it? Symptoms and Treatment

Pleurisy is an inflammation of the pleura with the formation of a fibrous plaque on its surface or effusion inside it. Appears as an accompanying pathology or as a consequence of various diseases. Pleurisy is an independent disease (primary pleurisy), but more often it is the consequences of acute and chronic inflammatory processes in the lungs (secondary pleurisy). Divide into dry, otherwise known as fibrinous, and effusive (serous, serous-fibrinous, purulent, hemorrhagic) pleurisy. Often p...

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