| The bronchi make the connections between the | | | | It gets very difficult for air to from the environment |
| lungs and the windpipe. They are lining of your | | | | to the lungs. |
| bronchial tubes and allow air to flow into your body. | | | | It is very important to know that the reason we get |
| These bronchi can get infected, or inflamed making it | | | | acute bronchitis is due to viruses in almost all of the |
| harder fro air to travel to the lungs. This condition is | | | | cases. Viruses travel through the air and when they |
| called bronchitis. | | | | go into the bronchi, cause an infection. Our body then |
| Apart form making it very difficult to breath, the | | | | tries to protect us from the virus. When this happens |
| inflammation of the bronchi can also cause mucus in | | | | more mucus is produced and the swelling can get |
| the airways, or phlegm. There are two types of | | | | even worse. We get bronchitis from the same virus |
| bronchitis: acute and chronic bronchitis. There can also | | | | that causes the cold, though there are times when a |
| be another type of bronchitis, but only in people who | | | | bacteria can cause bronchitis. This is more likely to |
| suffer from asthma. | | | | happen after you have suffered from a cold. |
| The first type of bronchitis, the acute one, can | | | | It is only necessary for the bronchial tubes to get |
| develop from a cold that you might suffer and | | | | irritated for more than two weeks and the qunatity |
| usually lasts a week at the most. It can also be | | | | of muscus that the body produces increases. This |
| caused by viral infections. It is accompanied by | | | | part of the body starts to thicken, coughing |
| cough, pain in the middle of the chest and sometimes | | | | becomes even worse than before, problems in |
| even fever. When suffering from acute bronchitis, | | | | breathing start to grow even more alarming and the |
| one might experience some shortness of breath, but | | | | lungs are therefor in more danger. Bronchial tubes are |
| very little and fro short periods of time. | | | | a very good place for infections. |
| The second type of bronchitis, the chronic one is | | | | As bad as it all sound, things are not that bad. A case |
| caracterized by a cough that produces mucus. In | | | | of acute bronchitis usually lasts only a few days. The |
| people suffering from this ilness, problems breathing | | | | cases that are more severe can also produce chest |
| are very dens. They are also more likely to get lung | | | | pain. Chronic bronchitis has very minor symptoms and |
| infections, thing which can generate even more | | | | it can be easily treated. There are cause when the |
| problems with their breathing. This ilness is mainly | | | | symptoms may get worse over the years and even |
| characterized by clogged or narrowed airways, thing | | | | start to threaten once' s life at some point, but |
| which causes the problems you might have breathing. | | | | these are rare cases. |