Atrophic tracheitis

Description:

Atrophic tracheitis (tracheitis – lat.) – option of a chronic inflammation of a mucous membrane of a trachea which is followed by processes of its thinning and an atrophy.

Symptoms of Atrophic tracheitis:

At atrophic tracheitis the mucous membrane of a throat, on the contrary, becomes thinner, sometimes becomes covered by crusts, gaining gray color.

Symptoms – painful, pristupoobrazny, cough, dry or with department of a phlegm, and also pharyngalgia and a breast are characteristic of atrophic chronic tracheitis.

In the absence of treatment chronic atrophic tracheitis is fraught with complications, in particular, distribution of inflammatory process on underlying respiratory tracts with development of bronchial pneumonia and a bronchiolitis. The first is characteristic generally of advanced age, the second – of children.
At the atrophic phenomena at a trachea the mucous membrane becomes thinner, gaining grayish color. By sight it becomes brilliant, smooth, its surface quite often bursts that causes painful, long fits of coughing in the patient. Atrophic chronic tracheitis develops in a complex with the atrophic phenomena mucous the above-located respiratory tracts.

Reasons of Atrophic tracheitis:

Chronic atrophic tracheitis develops from acute at persons who abuse alcohol and smoking that leads to developments of stagnation in respiratory tracts which develop against the background of diseases of kidneys, heart and emphysema of lungs.

Treatment of Atrophic tracheitis:

The applied medical actions seldom yield favorable result. Topical and general administration of iodide drugs can cause increase of the phenomena of narrowing of a throat. Some reduction of infiltrates sometimes manages to be received as a result of use of a roentgenotherapy and UVCh of therapy and a diathermy of a throat. At emergence of the phenomena of a stenosis it is necessary to make tracheotomy. The last, promoting breath simplification, does not influence a rassasyvaniye of subcopular infiltrates, than and difficulty of the subsequent decannulation speaks.