Symptoms of acute tracheitis

When the seasons change every year, many elderly people, children, and women with weaker constitutions often experience coughing or sputum production to varying degrees. In fact, if you do not seek medical treatment and diagnosis in time, you will often think it is a common upper respiratory tract infection based on your own identification. At this time, you must not be careless and must seek medical treatment as soon as possible, because there is a high possibility that you have acute bronchitis.

Acute tracheitis is an acute inflammation of the tracheobronchial mucosa caused by biological, physical, chemical stimulation or allergic factors. Most of the cases are sporadic and do not tend to be epidemic. The elderly and the weak are more susceptible. The main clinical symptoms are cough and sputum. It often occurs in cold seasons or when the climate changes suddenly.

Acute bronchitis is a common and frequently occurring respiratory disease. It often occurs following an upper respiratory tract infection and is often an early manifestation of pneumonia. What are the symptoms of acute bronchitis? The following is a detailed explanation. I hope everyone can detect bronchitis in time and take timely treatment.

The following are some symptoms of acute bronchitis:

1. Paroxysmal coughing occurs when waking up in the morning, changing sleeping position, inhaling cold air or after physical activity. Sometimes I even cough all day long. Severe coughing may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, or chest and abdominal muscle pain. When accompanied by bronchospasm, there may be wheezing and shortness of breath.

2. When mucus secretions are in larger bronchi, there may be coarse dry rales that disappear after coughing. When watery secretions accumulate in the small bronchi, moist rales can be heard in the lungs.

3. Acute tracheobronchitis is generally self-limiting. Fever and general discomfort can subside in 3 to 5 days, while cough sometimes takes several weeks to heal.

4. There is no abnormality in the chest X-ray or only darkening of the lung markings. The number of blood lymphocytes may increase in patients with virus infection, and the total white blood cell count and neutrophil ratio may increase in patients with bacterial infection.

5. When the disease occurs, it is often preceded by symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection, such as nasal congestion, sneezing, sore throat, hoarseness, etc. The patient's systemic symptoms were mild, including mild chills, fever, headache and body aches. The cough is not severe at first, is irritating, and produces little sputum. After 1 to 2 days, the cough worsens and the sputum changes from mucus to mucopurulent.