Tracheitis

General characteristic of a disease

If you came to the doctor, and he made you the diagnosis "tracheitis", then there are no reasons for concern here. This disease affects many people of the most different age and is successfully treated without any unpleasant effects. Tracheitis which symptoms are similar to laryngitis or rhinitis represents the inflammation progressing in a mucous membrane of a trachea. As a rule, the disease proves not as an independent disease, and develops against the background of other viral infections (pharyngitis, acute rhinitis, laryngitis).

Tracheitis – disease symptoms

First of all, tracheitis at children and adults proves irritation in a throat, unpleasant feelings in a breast and dry cough which especially strongly exasperates the person at night and in the morning. At the same time it is possible to note the following features:

• fits of coughing – are changeable and strong only at daybreak. In the rest of the time the person needs to make a deep breath to provoke spasmodic reactions;
• cough is followed by expectoration, and also severe pains in a throat and behind a breast which remain also after the termination of an attack.

Acute tracheitis

This form of a disease results from acute inflammatory reaction of a mucous membrane of a trachea on action of viral, bacterial or virus and bacterial infections. Most often acute tracheitis which treatment proceeds against the background of other respiratory diseases meets, is caused by pneumococci and a stick of an influenza. Stafilokokki is struck by trachea tissues much less often. As for other factors provoking development of an inflammation, It is necessary to distinguish from them especially:

• too dry or too cold air which the person breathes;
• general overcooling of an organism;
• some heart diseases and lungs;
• bad ecological situation in the place of residence or works.

The disease differs in severe hypostasis of a mucous membrane of a trachea. Inflammatory process leads to allocation of a viscous secret of mucous or purulent character, fervescence, migraine and feeling of weakness. Suddenly developed cold which soon is replaced by dry cough and an osiplost is one of the most strong indications of the fact that at the person acute tracheitis develops. Treatment of a disease is complicated for the reason that it practically never proceeds in itself, "adjoining" to an acute form of rhinitis and/or laryngitis.

Chronic tracheitis

If not to pay attention to acute tracheitis, symptoms of a disease and other concurrent factors, then, sooner or later, the disease inevitably progresses in a chronic form. At the same time process of transformation is followed by atrophic or hypertrophic changes of a mucous membrane of a trachea. As well as the acute form, chronic tracheitis at children and adults proves long fits of coughing and quite severe pains in lower parts of a thorax. The phlegm has different character. One patients have it scanty and viscous, and at others – plentiful, mucopurulent. Let's note that irrespective of a consistence and intensity of allocations, they almost always very easily separate.

Tracheitis – treatment at adults

As the disease most often arises in an organism under the influence of an infection, treatment of tracheitis means use of various antibiotics. This therapy brings very quite good results and is rather effective for fight not only against tracheitis, but also other inflammations of upper respiratory tracts.

There is a wish to note one important point: with individual intolerance to separate components of antibiotics or an easy form of a disease, it is recommended to refuse strong drugs. Treatment of tracheitis antibiotics from group of penicillin reasonablly when at the person all symptoms of an acute bacterial infection are observed, namely: purulent phlegm, fever, severe cough and temperature. But even in such situations it is better to use antibiotics in the form of inhalations. At the same time you will provide their uniform drawing on a mucosal surface of a cover of a trachea and will be able to reduce a necessary dose of drugs. If acute tracheitis proceeds benign, then it is better to refuse in general antibiotics and to accept antiviral, antibechic, expectorant and antihistamines.

If tracheitis is diagnosed for the person, treatment can be carried out by means of folk remedies. Now several more or less effective recipes gained fame at once, but we recommend to you to make the following inhalation: take leaves of a sage and an eucalyptus, mix them with a grass of mint and flowers of a camomile, add a few buds of a pine and fill in the turned-out weight with a glass of boiled water. Take mix of herbs on the water bath within 30 minutes, and then fill in it in an inhaler. It is necessary to inhale fumes not less than 10 and no more than 15 minutes.

Also tracheitis which symptoms often prove in the early spring and late fall is not bad treated by collecting from leaves of coltsfoot, a horsetail, flowers of a primrose and a plantain. Infusion needs to be accepted in a warm look on a half-glass in day, or to rinse them a throat.

Tracheitis at children – treatment and forecasts

The disease affects children of any age including babies. Proceeds against the background of an acute inflammation of a mucous membrane of a trachea and acts as an independent disease, and as a complication after flu or acute respiratory viral infections. The main symptom of tracheitis at children is the frequent barking cough amplifying in the morning or after exercise stresses when at the child breath becomes frequent. The strongest attacks are noted in the first three days of a disease. If to ignore them and to neglect development of an inflammation, then at children chronic tracheitis can develop. Especially dangerously to it in case of tendency of the child to allergic manifestations as they can provoke diseases of bronchial tubes.

How to treat tracheitis at children? Treatment consists in regular inhalations and the warming-up procedures (mustard plasters, banks and other methods). Before it you should consult with the pediatrician to exclude possible complications and to achieve the most effective results. At tracheitis grinding of a breast of the kid Asterisk or Doctor MOM balms helps. It is reasonable to use them from the first day of a disease. The procedure to be carried out twice a day, and grinding it is the best of all to do the second time for the night.

Certainly, you should not forget about prevention of a disease. Lead a healthy lifestyle, temper the children and then to them many viral infections will not be terrible.