Bronchitis is a disease accompanied by inflammation of the bronchi, most often - infectious. Less common is bronchitis caused by allergic causes, which is called asthmatic, because often it is a harbinger of asthma. Depending on the duration of the course, bronchitis is divided into acute and chronic.
Symptoms and causes of asthmatic bronchitis
The main sign of bronchitis, regardless of its nature, is a cough. With allergic bronchitis, if there are no concomitant diseases, the cough is usually dry, nasal, intensifying at night. At an exacerbation also attacks of a dyspnea and difficulty at an exhalation are possible or probable. Inflammatory bronchitis (viral, bacterial) can cause a runny nose and an increase in temperature (often insignificant).
The asthmatic component can appear both in acute, up to 3 weeks, and in chronic bronchitis. Asthmatic manifestation in acute bronchitis occurs both in the case of an allergic reaction to any pathogens, and with allergies to medications. In the case of household and food allergens, if you do not take measures, bronchitis passes into a chronic stage and can cause the development of bronchial asthma. Also, the development of asthmatic bronchitis is affected by hereditary predisposition, and most often it occurs in children.
Treatment
Directly for the removal of bronchial spasm are used drugs that dilate the bronchi, usually in the form of inhalations. At the moment, the most common drugs for lifting bronchospasm are salbutamol (saltox, salben, vitalin, astalin) and fenoterol (berotek). In addition, with asthmatic bronchitis, antihistamines are necessary to block the allergic reaction.
In the treatment of acute bronchitis, antibiotics, which can destroy the infection, come first. Most often, penicillin and macrolide agents are used. When suspected of the viral nature of the disease, kipferon, genferon and viferon are more often used.
In addition, in all cases, various inhalations are widely used, contributing to the humidification of the respiratory tract, dilution of sputum and, as a result, easier withdrawal from the body and easier breathing.
Treatment with folk remedies
- Decoction of turnip garden is used for bronchial asthma, difficulty breathing and severe attacks of cough, laryngitis. Juice turnips mixed with honey in a ratio of 1: 1 and take inside 1 teaspoon 3-4 times a day.
- In chronic bronchitis with an asthmatic component, an effective remedy is a mixture of motherwort, St. John's wort, nettle, eucalyptus and mother-and-stepmother in equal proportions. One tablespoon of the collection pour a glass of boiling water and insist half an hour in a thermos, then filter and drink. Take the collection for a month, then make a three-week break and repeat. The course of treatment lasts until the patient's condition is normalized (on average - at least a year).
- Pass through the meat grinder 0,5 kg of leaves of aloe,
mix with the same amount of honey and 0.5 liters of cahors and insist for 10 days. Take a tablespoon for half an hour before meals 3 times a day. This tincture can be taken prophylactically, 2 times a year, to prevent recurrence of asthmatic bronchitis. - To stop the beginning of an attack, it is recommended to drink half a glass of warm milk with the addition of 15 drops of alcohol tincture of propolis.
- And it should be remembered that with obstructive bronchitis with an asthmatic component, no matter what remedies are used for treatment, you need to have an inhaler in hand for an attack of suffocation.