Treatment of bronchitis antibiotics

Contents:

• The reasons for the appointment of antibiotic treatment
• Types of Bronchitis

Bronchitis is one of the most common diseases among men. Recently, it has become even chronic. However, his symptoms are very diverse and depend on numerous factors, both individual and others.

Just before you start the treatment of the patient, the doctor must find the cause of which was the beginning of the disease.

Today, aware of some cases where the doctor prescribes treatment of patients on the basis of antibiotics without analyzes and firm belief in the nature of the disease. Sometimes patients themselves start taking medication without talking to your doctor if this. And such an uncontrolled and indiscriminate acceptance of medication is inappropriate and can cause irreparable damage to health.

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Bronchitis is assigned to antibiotic therapy if:

1. observed not subside within 3 days of fever, more than 38 degrees;
2. obvious symptoms of intoxication;
3. there is ceasing of the protruding portion of the chest;
4. ESR levels above 20 mm / h;
5. found pockets of infection;
6. increased leukocytosis;
7. Analysis of blood there is the beginning of the inflammatory process;
8. disease is more than 3 weeks;
9. patient age of 60 years and above.

Is it always necessary to start with the detection of bronchitis antibiotics? Until now, experts can not answer this question clearly. And yet in some ways they are absolutely in agreement. Definitely do not take antibiotics should be started as soon as the first few days of illness. Because this disease has a viral origin of the foundation and the first sign of illness should take antiviral medications.

If a viral bronchitis treated with antibiotics, these drugs will only interfere with the protective mechanisms to resist the virus. They weaken the already weak immune system, and on this basis that a person may develop an allergy and dysbiosis. If a person had never suffered from any diseases associated with mild, in 95% it is a viral bronchitis.

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Doctors distinguish the following types of bronchitis:

• Acute bronchitis. In this case, bronchial inflammation is observed which appears on the background, and viral infectious agents. If the patient is found acute viral bronchitis, treatment is based on antiviral medicines. But the disease can be caused by bacteria, as pneumococci, streptococci or staphylococci. This infection is treated symptomatically and quickly passes.

Symptoms of acute bronchitis are strong cough, low-grade fever and chest pain. Basically, the disease is fast, rarely lasting up to a month. In this disease, wearing a viral etiology, it is recommended to take expectorant drugs and inhalations. Especially useful to the patient fluids and bed rest.

If within two years of the total number of days of illness exceeding 3 months, then this is considered a chronic bronchitis. Its main difference include coughing with mucus. This may be a consequence of smoking, allergies and work in hazardous occupations.

• Chronic bronchitis during relapses and exacerbations are treated with antibiotics, expectorants and inhalation. All medicines are appointed only by a physician, after examination on the basis of analyzes. Typically, uncomplicated chronic bronchitis, which has up to 4 relapses per year, doctors are advised to take the tablets from the group of antibiotics such as tetracycline and aminopenicillins.

In chronic disease, when exacerbations occur more than 4 times a year, it is recommended to receive: amoxiclav, amoxicillin, and cephalosporin drugs and macrolides. Persons suffering from chronic bronchitis with concomitant diseases, such as such as cardiac and renal failure, and diabetes, to prescribe drugs of fluoroquinolones group.

It is noticed that in recent years have been increasingly diagnosed Chlamydia and Mycoplasma bronchitis. This is a special type of pathogens, which appear in the lungs and bronchi. And the disease itself occurs on the background of the emergence in the human pathogens such as chlamydia and mycoplasma.

• Chlamydia and Mycoplasma bronchitis accompanied by intoxication patient. Develops and runs it slowly with recurrent prolonged and very difficult to treat. Patients with a diagnosis of high fever, muscle aches and chills. When chlamydial bronchitis prescribe drugs from the group of tetracycline, macrolides and fluoroquinolones. And with mycoplasma bronchitis appointed macrolide antibiotics when mycoplasma bronchitis.

What is antibiotic to treat bronchitis? The exact answer to this can provide an analysis of the bacterial inoculation of sputum. But there is one negative point: the result of the analysis becomes known to doctors only 5 days, and not before. But experts do not stand still, and looking for new opportunities and ways in medicine.

Terms of medication:

• In order to successfully recover and with chronic disease get the best effect from the medication, it is recommended to take a continuous course of preparations and preferably at the same time.
• Each patient must carefully observe any changes occurring in the body. If during the first 2 days do not improve, then replace antibiotics better, talking about this with your doctor.
• After a marked improvement, you want to continue treatment for another 3 days.
• Any malaise, fever, cough, chills immediately consult your doctor.

Correctly applying the medication, you can successfully cope even with such a terrible illness like bronchitis.