Bronchial asthma is an insidious disease that resembles some other ENT diseases. In particular, it can be confused with bronchitis or tonsillitis. Consider what each of these phenomena is.
What is bronchial asthma?
Bronchial asthma is characterized by chronic inflammation of the airways, bronchospasm, swelling of the bronchi, regularly recurring relapses of narrowing of the airways. Characteristic symptoms of bronchial asthma are suffocation, the inability to take a full breath, a feeling of tightness in the chest, wheezing or wheezing sounds during breathing; shortness of breath after minor physical exertion also occurs. However, the early stage of the disease can manifest itself simply as a dry cough.
Diagnosis of bronchial asthma is more complicated than tonsillitis or bronchitis. It requires a special examination of the airways for obstruction, and also checks the ability to breathe normally in different conditions.
What are bronchitis and tonsillitis?
Bronchitis is an inflammation of the bronchi as well as the mucous membranes throughout the respiratory tract. The cause of the disease is bacterial infections. Typical signs of bronchitis are cough with profuse sputum, shortness of breath after physical activity may also be present.
The difference between tonsillitis is that the inflammatory process does not occur in the bronchi, but in the tonsils of the sky. The main signs of the pathology are sore throat in a calm state and when swallowing, as well as redness of the tonsils, an increase and purulent formations. Sore throat, dryness is felt. There may be a headache, a feeling of general weakness. The temperature can reach up to 40 degrees.
Bronchitis can develop into asthma. At the same time, bronchial asthma can be complicated by both tonsillitis and bronchitis. Asthma is chronic, and the other two of the aforementioned diseases are acute ailments.
Bronchitis and tonsillitis result from infections, bronchial asthma due to allergies. You should know that both bronchitis and tonsillitis are some of the prerequisites for the onset and development of bronchial asthma. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor the state of the respiratory tract and pay due attention to prevention, preventing the penetration of infections into the bronchi.
If symptoms of tonsillitis, bronchitis and other ENT diseases are detected, it is necessary to provide high-quality treatment, which will help prevent the transition of less dangerous and serious diseases to bronchial asthma. Accordingly, the treatment of bronchial asthma, bronchitis and tonsillitis is carried out in various ways.