After a respiratory infection such as a cold or influenza can appear the inflammation of the bronchi of the lungs. This phenomenon describes a disease called Bronchitis.It develops with a persistent cough that produces high quantities of sputum. The symptoms lasts for almost ten days without any side effects in most people. But there is also the chance to become a chronical disease and then the...

Bronchitis is an infection of the intricate network of airways both within and connecting to the lungs. Usually striking when the immune system is low, bronchitis commonly develops as a progression of an upper respiratory infection and will normally clear within a couple of weeks although chronic cases may last for months. A small percentage of bronchitis cases are bacterial in nature and will...

According to research, snorers are more likely to develop chronic bronchitis than those who don’t snore. The research, which took four years to complete, was undertaken in Korea and surveyed over 4,000 people between the ages of 40 and 69. It found that people who snore six or seven times per week are around 68% more likely to develop the illness. It also found that people who only...

Diagnosing asthma is notoriously difficult, particularly in children. Asthma is sometimes missed simply because its symptoms are like those of bronchitis. Bronchitis is an inflammation of the air passages, or bronchi, and is marked by one of asthma's main symptoms that is wheezy symptoms. In acute bronchitis, the inflammation is caused by an infection, usually a virus, chronic bronchitis is...