Bronchitis smoker: symptoms and treatment of the disease

A smoker's bronchitis may appear in every person who smokes. Cough, as a rule, appears after a person smokes a cigarette. In the initial stages, the cough is not strong, so many people do not pay attention to it. However, after a while it becomes stronger and can seriously harm your health.

Symptoms of the disease

Bronchitis of a smoker can manifest itself with different symptoms. Everything depends on the individual characteristics of the smoker's organism and on the state of immunity. Also, a significant role is played by the severity of the disease. If a person is too sensitive bronchi, then bronchitis can acquire a severe form - bronchial obstruction. At her bronchi considerably narrow.

Intensive cough

The most important symptom of the disease, which manifests itself always before the rest - a wet cough. As a rule, cough appears immediately after waking up or after the first cigarette smoked. Cough can be of varying severity.

Sometimes such a cough may appear immediately after a person changes the brand of cigarettes. And cough is manifested with phlegm. This indicates that the person has already developed chronic bronchitis.

Exhaustive dyspnea

If the treatment of the first symptom is not started at the time, then soon others will appear. Cough can develop into bronchial obstruction. The smoker has severe shortness of breath. At first, dyspnea is insignificant, so a person also does not pay attention to it. But through time, it intensifies. The first time of shortness of breath appears at physical exertion, but after a few years it makes itself felt even under moderate loads.

Without treatment, over the years, dyspnea will only intensify. It will appear even at rest. This phenomenon is called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In the absence of treatment, complications, disability and even death may occur.

Unfortunately, this disease affects not only smokers, but also people who are next to them, the so-called passive smokers. Passive smokers suffer even more.

Treatment of

disease If you or your loved one have noticed symptoms of chronic smoker's bronchitis, it is necessary to see a doctor as soon as possible and undergo an examination. Do not wait for the appearance of dyspnea or a strong cough. Address immediately, as you will find in the morning a wet cough. The doctor will examine you and exclude other lung diseases. Then they will tell you to undergo a fluorography. If at the time of the examination you already had shortness of breath, be sure to tell the doctor about it.

If you want to get rid of the smoker's bronchitis, the first thing you need to do is quit smoking. It is very difficult to do this, especially if you have a long history of smoking. But if this is not done, the disease will progress and can lead to serious diseases, oncology and even death.

It's difficult to quit smoking. The body will adapt for a while to the fact that it no longer receives nicotine. This will bring a lot of unpleasant moments to man. Therefore, it is necessary in advance to be morally prepared for the upcoming difficulties. Most often in the first days after a person ceases to smoke, cough significantly increases, breathing becomes difficult, and sputum is very poor. Thus the state of health and the general or common status only worsen. Every day, throughout the week, the symptoms will worsen. Such a condition in medicine is called nicotine withdrawal syndrome. And it is for this reason that people often start smoking again. But if you endure a couple of weeks, the discomfort gradually fades. After a while they disappear completely.

Many people quit smoking is very difficult. Nicotine, getting into the body, actively stimulates those parts of the brain that are responsible for cough and respiratory reflexes. Therefore, the smoker feels much better after he smokes a cigarette. For such people it is best to seek help from doctors.

Doctors will select for you special medications that contain a small dose of nicotine. Such drugs not only facilitate disaccustoming, but also facilitate the process of clearing the lungs of phlegm. You can not select the drug yourself, as this can cause more damage to the body and your health.

If a person feels very ill during bronchitis, then immediately call a doctor and observe bed rest. Before the arrival of a doctor, the patient needs to provide a copious drink.

Traditional recipes for the treatment of the bronchitis of the smoker

In addition to the medicines prescribed by the doctor, one can also try the treatment with folk remedies. But before using any prescription, consult a doctor.

Infusion against the bronchitis of a smoker

To prepare such an infusion, take one tablespoon of dry herb St. John's wort and ledum. Grass place in enameled dishes and pour a glass of boiling water. Then cook it over low heat for half an hour. The broth should be used as a normal brew.

On the day the patient needs to drink at least three cups of this infusion. Usually on the second day after the beginning of treatment, cough is significantly increased - this is quite normal. Also after two or three days of sputum begins to actively withdraw. After about a week, the cough disappears. This remedy is suitable only for the treatment of this disease. With other types of cough it is useless.

Herbal tea with rose hips and chamomile

Very useful tea with rose hips and inflorescences of dry chemist's chamomile. Prepare this tea is very simple. To do this, take two teaspoons of chamomile and chopped wild rose berries. Pour all the two cups of boiling water and insist tea for an hour. You need to drink it just like any other tea. A day is recommended to drink at least two cups. In this tea there are substances that purify the lungs and the body of a smoker in a very short time.

Infusion with thyme and dandelion

Very often after an acute stage of bronchitis and its treatment, the smoker has a residual cough. With this cough, the infusion of dandelion and thyme is good. To make it, take a tablespoon of dried thyme and fresh dandelion root. Throw thyme into boiling water( half cup) and insist for forty minutes. While the thyme will be infused, from the root of the dandelion, take five teaspoons of juice. If you can not get the root of a dandelion, replace it with an aqueous solution that you can easily buy at any pharmacy.

Once the infusion has cooled, add dandelion juice and mix everything thoroughly. This mixture should be taken three times a day for ten minutes before eating. The course of treatment should last at least 14 days, but not more than one month. Note that the infusion should be prepared before use.

This decoction is effective in that it has a positive effect on the body of a smoker. The root of the dandelion very quickly removes toxins from the body, and thyme has an antispasmodic effect.

You can cure a smoker's bronchitis only if the patient wants to. It is not enough just to drink the course of drugs. It is necessary to refuse completely from smoking. And this is very difficult to do, so you need to show willpower.