10 Clinical Signs and Symptoms That Occur in Patients with Bronchitis
Clinical signs and symptoms that occur in patients with bronchitis depends on the extent and severity of the disease, disorder location, and whether there is a further complication. Characteristics of the disease is the presence of chronic cough with sputum production, there hemoptoe and recurrent pneumonia. Clinical signs and symptoms can be so severe in severe disease, and can not be real or no symptoms in mild disease (Irma Somantri, 2012). 1. Cough Cough in bronchitis is characterized, among others; chronic productive cough and a similar frequency as in chronic bronchitis, sputum amount varies, generally numerous, especially in the morning after sleeping position changes or wake up from sleep. If there is no secondary infection, sputum mucoid, while in case of secondary infection, purulent sputum, may give bad odor. In case of secondary infection by anaerobic bacteria, will cause extremely smelling sputum, in severe cases already, for example in the saccular type of bronchitis, spu