Acute Bronchitis

Acute bronchitis can be described as a self limited inflammation of large airways of the lung that happens in a patient without chronic lung disease.

How common - LRTIS -leading infectious cause of death worldwide among children and adults Not well defined ,but from an epidemiological point of view the term LRTI includes pneumonia ( infection of lung parenchyma ) , influenza , bronchitis( including acute exacerbation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -AECOPD ) and bronchiolitis Together they are the Vth leading cause of death exact prevalence of acute bronchitis can be hard to estimate as in primary care often various conditions are clumped together under acute bronchitis None the less it is one of the most common presentation in any healthcare setting data from the US shows that an estimated 5 % of the general population report an episode of acute bronchitis responsible for 10 million visits / year In the UK it is stated that acute bronchitis affects 44/1000 adults ( > 16yrs ) each year in the UK with 82 % of episodes occurring during winter or autumn Most common among young children , affects men and women equally and shows seasonal variation with no racial predilection...