how can i tell the difference between having bronchitis and having a bad flu?!
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The symptoms for acute bronchitis are:
Hacking cough.
Yellow, white, or green phlegm, usually appearing 24 to 48 hours after a cough.
Fever, chills.
Soreness and tightness in chest.
Some pain below breastbone during deep breathing
Some shortness of breath
The symptoms for chronic bronchitis are:
Persistent cough producing yellow, white, or green phlegm (for at least three months of the year, and for more than two consecutive years).
Sometimes wheezing, sometimes breathlessness.
Typical clinical features of influenza include:
fever (usually 100° F to 103° F in adults and often even higher in children)
respiratory symptoms such as,
cough,
sore throat,
runny or stuffy nose,
headache,
muscle aches, and
extreme fatigue.
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Ask a doctor.
The loudness of your cough . and if your lungs hurt
when you have bronchitis, basically every time you get sick or get a flu or a cold, you get extrememly congested in the chest, and it's very hard for you to breath.
bronchitis is in ur lungs and has to do with your breathing and the flu your whole body will ache you wont want to move at all. Bronchitis you have a real real bad cough and it either hurts to breath or its hard to breath either or. well i hope you feel better!
lungs.lungs.lungs
the flu will be a complete body trip
the flu will gradually subside but if your cough persists, go and get checked because it could turn into pnuemonia. I've had both so don't wait too long to get checked..
If you have bronchitis you will have wheezing noise from the chest when you breathe,inflammation of the bronchial tubes,this does not occur in flu
Bronchitis lives in the lungs. The flu causes stomach ache, fever, sore muscles, chills, not always congestion. Bronchitis symptoms are deep cough, sometimes productive but continuous and heaviness in the chest. However, its risky to not get diagnosed. You could very easily get pneumonia which is an infection in the lungs. Bacteria can build up in the mucous that has set in your lungs due to an "unproductive" cough. This is when nothing comes up. The gross green stuff! You need antibiotics for that and it can get serious enough to require hospitalization. Best bet? Get checked!
Well with bronchitis you have a cough that won't go away no matter what you use. You chest feels real heavy and it hurts when you breathe because all you do is cough, cough, and cough. I speak from experience on the bronchitis, had it more than once. Get a good doctors opinion ASAP because it could turn into pneumonia like mine did. Good Luck!
P.S. You need antibiotics to clear up bronchitis where as the flu eventually goes away after about 2 weeks with plenty of bedrest and liquids.
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