About nine years ago I was hospitalised due to multiple sickness: typhoid fever and dengue. As result of my fever, my body developed another kind of illness: bronchitis. It was not too painful but so annoying and I've learned that it may return at the time it pleases.
After taking vitamins, eating healthy foods and finally giving up everything to try out antibiotics, and yet it didn't work out, I called my sis. She only said a word: bronchitis.
What's that?
I searched for the word and came up with a definition from mayoclinic.com.
Bronchitis is an inflammation of the lining of your bronchial tubes, which carry air to and from your lungs. Bronchitis may be either acute or chronic.
A common condition, acute bronchitis often develops from a cold or other respiratory infection. Acute bronchitis usually improves within a few days without lasting effects, although you may continue to cough for weeks.
What are the symptoms?
For either acute bronchitis or chronic bronchitis, signs and symptoms may include: cough, production of mucus (sputum), either clear or white or yellowish-gray or green in color, shortness of breath, made worse by mild exertion, wheezing, fatigue, slight fever and chills, chest discomfort.
If you have acute bronchitis, you may have a nagging cough that lingers for several weeks after the bronchitis resolves.
It seems that I can't live with air conditioning system for a couple of weeks. Oh, well....
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