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 Chronic Bronchitis -- familydoctor.org
Your doctor may prescribe oxygen if your chronic bronchitis is severe and medicine doesn't help you feel better.
Because of the damage from chronic bronchitis, your lungs may not be able to get enough oxygen into your body.
Yes, your doctor may prescribe a medicine called a bronchodilator to treat your chronic bronchitis.
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 Chronic Asthmatic Bronchitis - Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention
Chronic asthmatic bronchitis refers to an underlying asthmatic problem in patients in whom the asthma has become so persistent that clinically significant chronic airflow obstruction is present despite anti-asthmatic therapy.
Questions To Ask Your Doctor About Chronic Asthmatic Bronchitis
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 MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Chronic bronchitis
It is crucial to quit smoking to prevent worsening of chronic bronchitis, and other respiratory irritants should be avoided.
Physical exercise programs, breathing exercises, and patient education programs all contribute to the treatment plan.
Early recognition, early treatment, and smoking cessation significantly improve the odds of a good outcome.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000119.htm

  
 eMedicine - Chronic Bronchitis : Article by Sat Sharma, MD, FRCPC, FCCP, DABSM
Can relieve bronchospasms by relaxing the smooth muscles of bronchioles in conditions associated with bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, or bronchiectasis.
-- Relax airway smooth muscles via anticholinergic pathway and are mainstay of treatment for patients with chronic bronchitis or COPD.
Salmeterol (Serevent) -- Can relieve bronchospasms by relaxing the smooth muscles of the bronchioles in conditions associated with bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, or bronchiectasis.
http://www.emedicine.com/MED/topic367.htm

  
 Bronchitis
One double-blind human trial found ivy leaf to be as effective as the drug ambroxol for chronic bronchitis.
Although there have been no modern clinical studies with this herb, its use for these indications is based on its high content of soothing mucilage in the forms of inulin and alantalactone.
In traditional herbal medicine, eucalyptus tea or volatile oil is often used internally as well as externally over the chest; both uses are approved for people with bronchitis by the German Commission E.
http://www.webrx.com/vf/healthnotes/HN77/HN77_english/Concern/Bronchitis.htm

  
 HealthCentral - General Encyclopedia - chronic bronchitis
Chronic bronchitis is also known as chronic obstructive pulmonary (lung) disease.
Chronic bronchitis is a condition of excessive bronchial mucus with a productive cough for 3 months or more in at least 2 consecutive years without any other disease that could account for this symptom.
Chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma as a group are the fifth leading cause of death in the US.
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 Healthopedia.com - Chronic Bronchitis
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Passive smoking, or exposure to secondhand smoke, does increase a person's risk for chronic bronchitis.
Chronic bronchitis is a type of chronic obstructive airway disease, or COPD.
http://www.healthopedia.com/chronic-bronchitis/

  
 Chronic bronchitis
However, chronic bronchitis is not caused by chronic infection.
In Australia about 4500 people die of chronic bronchitis each year.
It is usually caused by chronic irritation from smoke.
http://www.nevdgp.org.au/ginf2/murtagh/Infections/Chronicbronchitis.htm

  
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