Bronchitis- Causes, Symptoms & It’s Homeopathic Treatment!

People with bronchitis have swelling and inflammation in their bronchial tubes, the air passages that link the mouth and nose with the lungs.

TYPES:

Bronchitis can be acute or chronic.

Acute bronchitis usually clears up, but chronic bronchitis is persistent and never completely goes away. Quitting or avoiding smoking can help prevent bronchitis.

CAUSES

Acute bronchitis can result from:
• a virus, for example, a cold or flu virus
• a bacterial infection
exposure to substances that irritate the lungs, such as tobacco smoke, dust, fumes, vapors, and air pollution

Chronic bronchitis
Chronic bronchitis results from repeated irritation and damage to the lung and airway tissues. The most common cause is smoking, but not everyone with bronchitis is a smoker.

SIGN & SYMPTOMS:

Signs and symptoms of both acute and chronic bronchitis include:
• a persistent cough, which may produce mucus
• wheezing
• a low fever and chills
• a feeling of tightness in the chest
• a sore throat
• body aches
• breathlessness
• headaches
• a blocked nose and sinuses

A person with bronchitis may have a cough that lasts for several weeks or even a few months if the bronchial tubes take a long time to heal fully.
The symptoms of chronic bronchitis can flare up regularly. For many people, this happens during the winter months.

Risk factors

Factors that increase your risk of bronchitis include:
• Cigarette smoke.
People who smoke or who live with a smoker are at higher risk of both acute bronchitis and chronic bronchitis.

• Low resistance.
This may result from another acute illness, such as a cold, or from a chronic condition that compromises your immune system. Older adults, infants and young children have greater vulnerability to infection.

• Exposure to irritants on the job.
Your risk of developing bronchitis is greater if you work around certain lung irritants, such as grains or textiles, or are exposed to chemical fumes.

• Gastric reflux.
Repeated bouts of severe heartburn can irritate your throat and make you more prone to developing bronchitis.

COMPLICATIONS

Although a single episode of bronchitis usually isn’t cause for concern, it can lead to pneumonia in some people. Repeated bouts of bronchitis, however, may mean that you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
DIAGNOSIS
1. Check oxygen levels in your body
2. Lung function test
3. Other blood tests
4. Test your mucus to rule out diseases caused by bacteria

PREVENTION

To reduce your risk of bronchitis, follow these tips:
• Avoid cigarette smoke.
• Wash your hands.
• Wear a surgical mask.

HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT:

Here are the few medicines listed below which can help to treat the bronchitis.
• Antimonium tartaricum-
For suffocating spasmodic cough with a loud rattle in the chest with thick, green mucus that is difficult to expectorate. Cough excited by eating, with pain in chest and larynx. Cough and dyspnoea better lying on right side.

• Bryonia-
It is suited for stitching tearing pain in chest with dry cough worse at night and after eating or drinking. Cough, with feeling as if chest would fly to pieces with difficult, quick respiration; worse by every movement.

• Dulcamara-
Indicated for Bronchitis, with excessive secretion of mucus worse in cold, wet weather, and tickling in larynx.

• Kali carb-
Indicated in cases of dry, hard cough at 3 am, with stitching pain in chest. Whole chest feels very sensitive with scanty tenacious expectoration.

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Dr. Mansi Joshi
Asst. Physician – Tathya Homeopathic Clinic