Is it chronic Bronchitus?

Question:

For the past 4 years I have had bronchitus quite a few times, I am the type of person who won't go to the Dr.'s until 4 weeks have passed.

Starting about 6 years ago, I started coughing up a lot of muccus at night. This only happened maybe once a month and only in the winter.

Every year it gets worse. Last winter, I coughed up muccous every single night for the last 2 months of dry cold air. I live in Maine, and already the dry air is moving in and I have once again started with the bad coughing. It usually happens once a night, and there is always a lot of muccous that comes up, all at once. It's really very gross, but none the less a problem.

Last winter I had bronchitus 4 times, the winter before I also had it 4 times.

Answers:
first, i think it maybe is asthma (triggered by the weather changes and draft). or is it? pardon the correction, but the right term is bronchitis (inflammation of the bronchus).

i would suggest you might have pulmonary tuberculosis if you have been spitting out blood with ur mucus, but i guess you could not have that illness coz its eradicated in the US, but if you cough out blood i suggest you should check on it with the MDs coz thats serious and needs treatment ASAP.

also, if you have difficulty breathing and back pain it might be pneumonia... but then again im only guessing.

anyway, i would reli suggest you should check that with a pulmonologist, you might be havin some asthma or something else. DONT make it a point to seek medical care in the worse case scenario.. aiyt?

First of all I am supposing you do not smoke.
I have had this problem also.I quit smoking about 21/2 yrs ago & i still have the problem.
It is probably an allergy brought in by the changing weather.Horrible to have to suffer with this!
Go to the doc & tell him right out you are tired of it!

Sounds like chronic something! You mention that you DO go to the doctor, even if it's after 4 weeks, so I guess he/she has told you that it is bronchitus.
However, you could try this!!
Stop eating anything that has white flour in it!! Yes, white flour. AND milk products - except maybe yogurt. This would cut down on mucous!!
Look into these:
www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/a...
www.specialfoods.com/specialfo...
Your diet will make all the difference in the world.

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