You may need these treatments when you have temporary lung congestion due to a cold, flu, or acute bronchitis. However, regularly clearing mucus from your lungs is part of living with chronic ...

Bronchitis and pneumonia are two common respiratory conditions that often cause confusion due to their overlapping symptoms.

Symptoms of cough and sputum (or phlegm)—respiratory mucus often expelled by coughing—production may last about three months. To be considered chronic, they would return each year for at least ...

With chronic bronchitis, ... This phlegm may be yellow, green, or brown in color. Common symptoms also include: Trouble breathing (rapid or shallow, breathlessness while resting) ...

In five of the studies, chronic bronchitis was defined as sputum production lasting for at least 3 months; in the other three, it was part of a broader definition of respiratory symptoms, ...

“A lot of patients are somewhat embarrassed by chronic cough and phlegm,” says Dr. Victor Kim, a COPD and chronic bronchitis expert at the Temple Lung Center.

A 35-year-old overweight woman with diabetes and a history of chronic bronchitis complains that for several days she has had a worsening cough productive of greenish sputum containing streaks of ...

Chronic bronchitis, a phenotype of COPD, affects an estimated 3-16% of the population worldwide.1 Patients experience prolonged inflammation and excess mucus in the lung airways, causing severe ...

In Chronic Bronchitis patients, the airways have been damaged and the tiny hair-like cells lining the lungs that help move mucus and debris out of the airway, become dysfunctional.

Final trials are underway at Temple Health for RheOx, a minimally invasive treatment for chronic bronchitis. It's aimed at reducing mucus that clogs airways, and hampers breathing. 24/7 Live ...

More than 10 million people across the country have chronic bronchitis. Now Researchers feel that they may have a cure, but they need help. The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) is ...