Chronic Bronchitis

The disease chronic bronchitis is defined in clinical terms as a condition in which a chronic productive cough is present at least three months per year for at least two consecutive years (Egans p. 140). The definition also includes there is no other known cause for the cough. Chronic bronchitis can occur without airflow obstruction. However, signs and symptoms usually only become significant when there is an obstruction. Chronic bronchitis is more prevalent among heavy smokers. …

…the patients response. a good outcome can be established by stabilization of pulmonary hygiene and the presence of sputum following a cough. The goal of these three therapies combined would be to open the airway. Then move secretions out of peripheral airways and into the central airways where with the proper technique they can be expelled. Chronic bronchitis can not be cured but the discomfort and health complications can be alleviated and further degeneration prolonged.