Bronchitis Asthma

When a medical specialist used the word "chronic" he is directly referring to a long-term and persistent suffering of a person from certain disease. One of which is chronic bronchitis.

Chronic bronchitis is the irritation or swelling of lung's airways. These airways are tubes in the lungs where the air used to pass through. Airways are also termed as "bronchial tubes".

When irritation occurs in bronchial tubes the formation of thick mucus will follow. Hence, the bronchial tubes will be block by the mucus, resulting to difficultlty in breathing.

Asthma on the other hand is the chronic inflammation of the airways or bronchial tubes. This common lung disorder is normally characterized by difficult breathing.

The chronic bronchitis is frequently associated with asthma, if not with allergies. Truth is a bronchial infection consists several factors that may possibly trigger it.

Both of these lung disorder?chronic bronchitis and asthma?is characterized by coughing, chest contraction, wheezing and difficulty in breathing.

Sadly, the environment alone consist several threatening factor that triggers bronchial infection, thus, the start of the symptoms.