Prolonged antibiotic prescription is an appropriate and safe treatment in children with persistent wet cough as advocated in this paper. Paediatricians reading the paper may think that all children with persistent wet cough lasting >1 month should be labelled first as persistent bacterial bronchitis and...
I've had a dry cough for over a month. After a week it became productive with green phlegm. It has stayed like that until this Thursday when I woke wi...
Adry coughis a cough where no mucus or very little mucus is expectorated (coughed up). This is known as anon-productive cough. Most conditions that may cause a cough will present as adry coughin the early stages. As the disease progresses, the productive nature of the cough will become e...
A cough associated with chronic bronchitis is commonly known as a ‘smoker’s cough‘ due to the prevalence of this condition in tobacco smokers. Smoking leads to chronic obstructive bronchitis, a type ofchronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),which results in a loss of elasticity of the lu...
Many children experience a prolonged wet cough after having an acute cough and can develop a condition called protracted bacterial bronchitis or PBB. In a collaborative study published inThe Lancet Microbe, researchers from Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies), The Telethon Kids Institute and ...
Results After treatment,the clinical control rate in the observation group was better significantly than the control group(P 0. 05). In 4 weeks of treatment,every symptom index was reduced significantly as compared with that before treatment in the two groups(P 0. 05). In 4 weeks of ...
As some wheezers also had stridor, controls with stridor and cough also had to have obvious structural airway abnormalities, such as airway malacia or external compression, which explained their symptoms. The lavage and follow-up studies were fully approved by Southampton and South West Hampshire ...
A Prospective, Multicenter Survey on Causes of Chronic Cough in China CHRONIC NONPRODUCTIVE COUGHRESPIRATORY-HEALTH-SURVEYCHRONIC PERSISTENT COUGHEOSINOPHILICBRONCHITISDIAGNOSTIC PROTOCOLASTHMACOMMUNITYGUIDELINESBackground: The causes of ... K Lai,R Chen,J Lin,... - 《Chest》 被引量: 151发表: 2013年 ...
He has a longstanding history of chronic cough productive of mueoiJ sputum con sistent with chronic bronchitis. The patient was referred for assessment after a six-month history of involuntary weight loss of uvcr 5 kg and an increase in mueopurulent sputum production. An incidental chest raJio...