Talk:Bronchitis
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[edit] Specificity of Article
May 6, 2006 Regular bronchitis should be clearly differentiated from chronic bronchitis. It is True that statistically speaking, almost all chronic bronchitis is caused by smoking. (Same thing for emphysema for that matter) Personally, I feel that Chronic Bronchitis should be separated from this article and placed under COPD. -PrimaryRamus
I agree, acute bronchitis is an infection, chronic bronchitis isn't (although one can have acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis) does anyone want to volunteer to rewrite this article into acute bronchitis and migrate all the info on chronic bronchitis over the COPD?
Dakoman 19:13, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
This article is a bit of mess. I suppose I should sort it out (isn't that what a Wiki is about?). -- Nick Bell 12:07, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I agree chronic should be a separate article. I was interested in acute bronchitis and found the discussion of chronic distracting and a mild annoyance. 220.233.208.223 12:20, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
yeh, but you guys are forgetting that the title just says 'bronchitis' therefore it contains both types of bronchitis, so you should have been expecting it really.
[edit] Bias in this report
The writer has stressed smoking as THE cause of bronchitis. This is wrong. please read below for a more accurate/less biased report (though certainly not pro smoking).
Causes According to the Mayo page colds and acute bronchitus are often caused by the same viruses and stomach acid backing up into the food pipe (GERD) and noninfectious bronchitis from cigarette smoke and exposure to household chemicals.
Chronic bronchitis is strongly related to smoking and air pollutants.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bronchitis/DS00031/DSECTION=3&
[edit] Needs Clean Up
Agree with above " is something that I think may depend upon but not precluded by it)
While you're at it: "Acute bronchitis often follows a cold or infection. It may be viral or bacterial." I've read that 90% of acute bronchitis is viral, yet doctors still prescribe antibiotic courses to treat. Is this in case it's the 10%? Or is it to make patients feel they've gotten their money's worth? If 90% is cited, of course (of course) it needs a source.--Justfred 01:08, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Since it takes up to a week to culture sputum, and since acute bacterial bronchitis can in rare cases kill (and in less than a week), and since antibiotics are ridiculously cheap, I suspect it's because of the 10%. --Charlene 22:19, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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- While acute bronchitis is mostly caused by viral infection, bacterial infection often follows; it is not known whether antibiotics hasten recovery in otherwise healthy individuals. In otherwise healthy adults it gets better in 4-8 days, without the patient becoming seriously ill. (Kumar P., Clark M., Clinical medicine 6th Edition) Yazza 13:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Fjeh: Agree with the bias. The article refers to cigarette smoking far more than is necessary and where inappropriate.
I think this needs more cleanup. For example, the following sentence is confusing: "Unlike many disorders, bronchitis can not be acute (short-term), or chronic (long-lasting). " I'm assuming it should be "...bronchitis can be acute..." but I didn't want to change it myself as I do not know much about bronchitis except from a layman's perspective. Dpeters11 20:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Smoking is not being scapegoated
Currently there is a user, 70.242.76.127, who has been placing snarky edits suggesting that people stop driving or eating cooked meals to treat bronchitis. There are sources cited, but they are very weak in this context. I understand that a lot of smokers feel under siege these days, but stating "To help the bronchial tree heal faster and not make bronchitis worse, smokers should cut down on the number of cigarettes they smoke, or quit altogether [1] " is not a "mini-lecture against smokers" as he called it on my Talk page. I think it's pretty well established that tobacco smoke can cause exacerbation of bronchitis. The statement didn't say "you should never smoke EVER," though quitting is given as an option -- it suggests cutting back or quitting. This seems quite reasonable and NPOV to me.
If there are reputable medical sources out there saying that one should cut back on cooked food and driving to treat a simple case of bronchitis, that is one thing -- but the sources he cited don't back that up. This sounds more like a typical response in smoker/nonsmoker arguments, setting up cars (or cooking fumes) as a strawman. Of course, if the air quality is bad where you live, and you have bronchitis, that is certainly an issue, but the edits made here seemed to be axe-grinding and not encyclopedic. (If any of this doesn't make sense, forgive me, I have a rip-roaring case of bronchitis myself at the moment.) ManekiNeko | Talk 00:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
