Bronchitis smoker: symptoms and treatment. Cough smoker: how to get rid? How to clean the lungs after smoking?

A smoker with experience and without it can have a specific bronchitis. Article on the symptoms of the disease, its complications, as well as on ways to treat inflammation of the bronchi and cough.

Nicotine dependence is one of the most persistent, and smoking is a harmful habit that causes irreparable damage to health. No one hides these facts. On the packs of cigarettes print intimidating inscriptions and photos, but for some reason smoke breaks do not become less.

Perhaps, everyone who smokes thinks that his health problems will be bypassed. He thinks this way until he starts coughing, goes to the hospital and hears the diagnosis of "smoker's bronchitis".And further serious treatment begins and an even more serious struggle with oneself.

Symptoms of the smoker. Cough smoker

In therapy and pulmonology, there is a separate disease characterized by the presence of their own specific symptoms and special tactics of treatment. It is called the bronchus of a smoker.

Cough is a sure sign of a smoker's bronchitis.

IMPORTANT: Bronchitis of a smoker is an ailment that affects not only smokers with experience, for which the minimum is a pack of cigarettes a day. Inflammation of the bronchi due to irritation with their nicotine mucosa also occurs in people who inhale cigarette smoke passively. Therefore, smoking, a person harms not only himself but also his loved ones

Bronchitis of a smoker develops due to exposure to cigarette smoke on the bronchi:

• first, it inhibits the process of natural renewal of goblet cells, so the bronchial secret of those who have a habit of smoking,is produced in excess of the
• measure, secondly, killing the ciliated cells, nicotine provokes chronic inflammation of the bronchial epithelium and disrupts the mechanism of natural cleansing of the body

Symptoms of the smoker's bronchitis appearx who inhales cigarette smoke passively.

If the emergence of the first symptoms of bronchial inflammation does not result in quitting and does not receive appropriate treatment, the process takes a chronic form, and this is fraught with:

• exacerbation of inflammatory-obstructive changes in
• bronchi by the development of bronchial asthma as a concurrent disease or consequence of the
• bronchitis smoker development of emphysemalung
• development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

All these conditions are incurable, but they can be restrained to increase the durationLife Span of the patient and improve its quality.

When the smoker's bronchitis, the patient's bronchi are clogged with thick phlegm.

Many factors affect the development of a smoker or a person who inhales cigarette smoke passively:

• smoking experience( not necessarily 20 years, bronchitis can occur even after a couple of weeks or months after the person started smoking)
• number of consumed cigarettes
• ageand sex
• genetic predisposition to diseases of the bronchopulmonary system
• state of the immune system
• frequent ARI and bronchitis in an anamnesis
• lifestyle
• associated industrial, environmentalie factors affecting the state of the broncho-pulmonary system

inflammation of the bronchi of those who smoke, manifested by the following symptoms:

1. The smoker begins coughing. At the beginning the person begins to cough in the morning. Cough is unproductive, but infrequent, it does not always appear. Therefore, he is often not paid due attention. After a while, the cough becomes paroxysmal and mixed due to increased sputum. But since the sputum is too viscous, it adheres to the bronchial mucosa, complicating the breathing, it can not be cleared out. The smoker coughs often, loudly and strongly. The symptom gives him considerable discomfort. When the inflammation of the bronchi starts, people with nicotine dependence when coughing separate the pathological secret from yellow to brown or greenish( with pus)
2. There is shortness of breath and other signs of respiratory failure. Slugs clogged and often spasmodic bronchi are not able to perform the respiration function assigned to them. The smoker begins to feel a shortage of air, first, with active physical exertion, and with time and at rest. Even ordinary walking provokes his expiratory dyspnea. In advanced cases, respiratory failure in smokers is manifested even in sleep
3. Immunity decreases. Resistance of the body of the smoker falls, he is more often sick with ARVI, other infectious and inflammatory diseases of the respiratory system and other body systems
4. The body begins to experience hypoxia. Due to the dysfunction of the inflamed bronchi, organs and systems lack oxygen, which leads to serious consequences, up to irreversible changes caused by cell death. The first to suffer heart and brain
5. The patient is quickly tired. Bronchitis smoker literally takes all the forces. He deprives him of the opportunity to work normally, relax, communicate with people

Simultaneously with a cough, the smoker has shortness of breath.

IMPORTANT: The smoker's own bronchitis is not infectious. But the inflamed and inflamed bronchial mucosa becomes a favorable environment for the reproduction of pathogenic microflora. The condition of the patient is aggravated by an infection that is difficult to treat.

The lungs of a person who smokes

The lungs of a smoking person undergo painful changes. All harmful substances contained in tobacco smoke settle on the ciliated epithelium, the lining organ. Soot and resin clog the pulmonary alveoli, disrupting breathing. Cells of the body begin to die.

The lungs of a smoker and the lungs of a healthy person.

IMPORTANT: Lung cancer and smoking are directly related. Out of 100,000 nonsmokers, 12 people suffer from this deadly ailment. Of the 100,000 smokers - already 122 people!

Bronchitis smoker treatment

Treatment of bronchial inflammation caused by inhalation of tobacco smoke is usually prolonged and complex. Depending on the severity of the patient's condition, the degree of manifestation of his respiratory failure occurs at home or in a pulmonary hospital.
In parallel with traditional methods, doctors are encouraged to use folk.

IMPORTANT: In order to relieve inflammation of the bronchial mucosa, restore the functions of the organ, it is first necessary to eliminate the factor that caused the disease. That is, quit smoking. Without this condition the symptoms of the smoker's bronchitis will pass for a while or will not pass at all, the cure will not come

An expectorant for cough for smokers. Tablets from the smoker's cough

The refusal of cigarettes is followed by a course of drug treatment aimed at removing symptoms of bronchitis, improving bronchial function and improving the immunity of the patient.

The patient will have to take:

1. Bronchodilators. These drugs in pocket spray-inhalers, nebulas, tablets and injections relax the smooth muscles and thereby relieve bronchospasm, expand the bronchial lumen. It becomes easier for the patient to breathe. In the acute period of the smoker's bronchitis the patient, as a rule, breathes Ventolin or Salbutomol.

   Ventolin expands the lumen of the bronchi and facilitates breathing.

2. Expectorants. Synthetic and plant-derived mucolytics are prescribed for liquefaction of sputum and evacuation of its respiratory tract during bronchitis of the smoker: ATSTS, Ambroxol, Lazolvn, Mukoltin, preparations based on herbs and plant roots( altey, thyme, thermopsis, licorice, etc.)

   ACC dilutes sputum andhelps to cough it out.

3. Preparations against allegritis. Bronchitis of any origin always has an allergic component. Therefore, appoint Eden, Claritin, Erius or other antihistamines

   Erius eliminates the allergic component of the smoker's bronchitis.

4. Antibacterial drugs. If pathogenic bacteria were multiplying on the inflamed mucous bronchi, the patient is prescribed antibiotics of a wide range of actions: Ospamox, Sumamed, Augmentin, Azithromycin, and others.
5. Immunostimulants and vitamins. As a rule, these are phytopreparations and homeopathic medications

VIDEO: How to treat a smoker's bronchitis?

Lungs after quitting. Cough of the former smoker

The human body is simply amazing, it is capable of self-healing.

Unfortunately, full recovery of bronchi and lungs after quitting is not always possible.

• Unfortunately, this process in the organs of the broncho-pulmonary system is slow. And not always refusal from smoking means the return of the lungs to the original state of
• . Nevertheless, due to compensatory and regenerative mechanisms, after only 6-10 months, the effects of even prolonged smoking are partially neutralized. The lungs are gradually cleared of tar and other harmful contaminants of tobacco smoke that have settled on them. Ten years after quitting smoking, a person is not considered to smoke at all
• The cough of a former smoker is also gradually cured. If the treatment of the smoker's bronchitis is undertaken in full, cough, wheezing and shortness of breath in the patient go through 1-3 months. But there are times when it takes 9 or even 12 months for a complete cure.

Than to treat a bronchitis and a smoker's cough? How to clean the lungs after smoking?

Bronchitis and a smoker's cough can also be treated with folk remedies.
First and foremost, these are phytopreparations possessing an expectorant property and anti-inflammatory agent, for example: thyme, licorice root, chamomile flowers, linden and dandelion, wild rose berries. The pharmacy chest collection is also suitable.
RECIPE: Infusion from a mix of herbs from a smoker's cough

Expectorant herbs for a smoker's bronchitis help.

It is necessary: ​​a root of licorice and an althaea, grasses of mother-and-stepmother, thyme, oregano.
Vegetable components are mixed in equal proportions. For one brew take 2 teaspoons of phytopreparation and pour 1 liter of hot water, but not boiling water. Insist 2 hours. They drink 1 glass 3 times a day before meals.
Classic radish with honey is also suitable for the treatment of a smoker's bronchitis.
RECIPE: Cough medicine from black radish juice and honey

You can also make a mixture of radish and honey juice.

It is necessary: ​​black radish - 1 medium fruit, honey - 2 tbsp.spoons.
Radish rubbed on a grater or ground with a blender. From the resulting gruel squeeze the juice and mix it with honey. The medicine is taken by a dessert spoon 3-4 times a day during the acute period of the disease, then - 1 h spoon 2 times a day until the cough is completely cured.
In order to defeat the smoker's bronchitis, the patient should also adhere to a special regime:

• to work and rest
• more to be outdoors, and if possible go outside the city of
• to air the living and working premises, do the wet cleaning of
• and do the feasible sportbreathing exercises
• fully fed

IMPORTANT: If a person ever again smokes, the smoker's bronchitis can make a relapse.

VIDEO: Bronchitis of a smoker