Doctors called the most popular myths about bronchitis.
MYTH 1: THE ILLNESS IS NOT CONTAGIOUS
Bronchitis is often caused by viruses: coronavirus, respiratory intitially, Reno, metapneumovirus or flu. And everything combines SARS airborne droplet transmission. Because if you see, for example, on the Playground, coughing child, do not listen to stories about residual cough — go! Remember: the incubation period of these viruses, except for influenza (it is already apparent one day after infection) of 5-10 days.
Also, do not use utensils and towels of the patient, along with particles of secretions, there may be pathogenic bacteria (if the bronchitis is bacterial). From bronchitis, you don’t get sick, but since these bacteria will become part of your flora, then the hypothermia or the decrease in immunity against other diseases in the future, you also risk to get this disease.
MYTH 2: PROLONGED RHINITIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS
Complicated cold can grow only in sinusitis. Another thing is that rhinitis does not pass for the week may indicate that the nasal mucosa activated bacteria (which is almost everyone, just that their growth is constrained by the immune system). And if the body is not enough protective forces to suppress their growth on their own (without medicines prescribed in this case a doctor), it is possible that pathogens are able to proliferate in the lower respiratory tract. But only on the condition that they “lived” and to the cold.
MYTH 3: EXPECTORANTS WILL NOT ALLOW THE DISEASE
These drugs should only be used if prescribed by a doctor, documenting the patient’s bronchitis. Separate use expectorants (even plant based), on the contrary, to provoke the disease. The fact is that, forcing the organism to remove non-existent mucus from the alveoli, these drugs will irritate the lower Airways, leading to spasm or congestion of the bronchi, and as a consequence development of inflammation in them. Therefore, no egos.
MYTH 4: SWIMMING WITH BRONCHITIS NOT
This is not true as the fact that swimming is supposedly only in the absence of elevated body temperature. Take a shower and even a warm bath (not hot) and at a temperature of 39 °S. the Main thing, then wipe dry and lay down for a couple of hours in bed. The room should be warm and without drafts. If water treatment does not entail hypothermia (and that won’t happen under specified conditions), they are even shown in the disease: the fact that the skin also is an organ of the respiratory and immune systems, and how it is cleaned depends largely on the quality of immunity. Remember that in this disease, as a rule, the person is actively sweating, and contamination of the skin is enhanced at times — in fact through the pores toxins.
MYTH 5: DRY COUGH NOT BRONCHITIS
Just a dry cough, coarse breathing, especially at high body temperature (even 37,2°) may indicate a lower respiratory tract with difficult expectoration of secretions. Moreover coughing in this case the person may only a few times a day.
MYTH 6: WITHOUT ANTIBIOTICS CAN NOT DO
It’s not true. Not only because sometimes in the development of bronchitis is to blame viruses (against which antibiotics are powerless), but also because the cause of the disease is sometimes spasm (triggered by virus, bacteria or allergic agent, defending himself from them, the body constricts blood vessels which causes spasm). This type of bronchitis is called obstructive. It is treated with medications, relieves bronchospasm, and only if three days does not occur improvements, and common blood with the formula shows the increase of leucocytes, stab neutrophils and erythrocyte sedimentation rate, connect the antibiotics, since the results of the tests saying that was joined by a bacterial infection. If not, and you will spend on drink antibiotics, the bronchitis will not cure and will destroy the beneficial microflora in the intestines, and it creates up to 80% of immune factors.
By the way, if allergic and viral nature of the bronchitis is eliminated, and the results of General blood analysis indicate the development of bacterial infection, the doctor is entitled to prescribe antibiotics without waiting for results of the analysis of the crop from the nasopharynx and sensitivity to antibiotics (antibiogram): they will be ready in 8-10 days, and bronchitis are the most frequent cause bacteria such as pneumococci, staphylococci, enterobacteria, Haemophilus coli, the majority of modern broad-spectrum preparations sensitive to them.
Another thing is that targeted therapy more effective and reduces the risk of a protracted course of the disease. Because these tests do is. But not necessarily with each relapse: results of the sowing and the sensitivity of relevant 2-3 years (on the microflora of the nasopharynx and sensitivity to antibiotics may vary).
