What is the differences between astma and chronic bronchitis?!
Question: Asthma bronchiale is a condition which causes attacks of wheezing, caused by spasm due (often allergic) inflammation of the airways, causing severe shortness of breath. In between nothing is wrong with your breathing.
Chronic bronchitis is a condition characterised by more or less constant coughing, sometimes a lot of phlegm, wheezing, shortness of breath, often caused by smoking. No attacks here.
Answers: Asthma bronchiale is a condition which causes attacks of wheezing, caused by spasm due (often allergic) inflammation of the airways, causing severe shortness of breath. In between nothing is wrong with your breathing.
Chronic bronchitis is a condition characterised by more or less constant coughing, sometimes a lot of phlegm, wheezing, shortness of breath, often caused by smoking. No attacks here.
Asthma is a reactive airway disease that can be aggravated by allergies or infection. Bronchitis is a usually caused by an infection that lives in teh bronchi or the 2 main brances of the lungs that come off of the trachea.
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they behave much the same, but asthma is sometimes caused by allergies and has an emotional component (sometimes kids learn to get desperately needed attention by having an asthma attack). CB is infectious and becomes chronic because once you've had it, it recurs more easily in future, with or without the infection. medical science isn't perfect and these two common and very similar conditions are proof.
Acute and chronic bronchitis are both inflammations of the air passages. However, their causes and treatments are different. Acute bronchitis occurs most frequently during the winter. It often follows a viral infection, such as a cold or the flu and may accompany a bacterial infection.
A person who has acute bronchitis is usually better within two weeks. The cough that accompanies the disease may last longer, however. As with similar infections of the airways, pneumonia may also develop.
Asthma: A common disorder in which chronic inflammation of the bronchial tubes (bronchi) makes them swell, narrowing the airways. Asthma involves only the bronchial tubes and does not affect the air sacs (alveoli) or the lung tissue (the parenchyma of the lung) itself.
Asthma is different then other respiratory illnesses because it is episodic and reversible. It comes and goes (triggered like and allergy) and can be reversed with a breathing medication.
A FULL pulmonary function test with bronchodilator administration can show the difference between the two diseases.
A pulmonary function test with methacholine challenge can defiantly show asthma or not.