Symptoms of Tracheitis and Pneumonia

Written by Yang Feng
Pulmonology
Updated on February 10, 2025
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Bronchitis and pneumonia are two different types of diseases. Bronchitis often presents only with symptoms like coughing and expectoration, while fever and wheezing are relatively less common. Pneumonia is a common infectious disease of the respiratory system, and its main clinical symptoms include fever, cough, expectoration, wheezing, chest pain, etc. We can differentiate bronchitis from pneumonia through pulmonary imaging, as bronchitis on imaging is characterized by coarse patterning and disorganized structures in both lungs.

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What foods should be avoided with tracheitis?

People with bronchitis should avoid overly spicy, stimulating, and greasy foods, such as chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, grilled meats, and hot pots. These foods can exacerbate symptoms of coughing and phlegm, hampering the alleviation of the condition. Some cases of bronchitis are caused by allergic factors. If a person is allergic to certain foods, they should avoid those foods. For instance, patients allergic to seafood should not consume it as it could worsen symptoms of coughing and asthma, which is not conducive to the relief of their condition. A light diet should be maintained, with attention to staying warm, avoiding cold exposure, changing unhealthy lifestyle habits, and abstaining from smoking and drinking.

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What are the symptoms of tracheitis?

Bronchitis is a very common disease in respiratory medicine and can be categorized into acute bronchitis and chronic bronchitis based on the duration of the disease. Generally, regardless of the type, the symptoms presented by patients are primarily discomfort in the respiratory tract, such as fever, fatigue, cough, expectoration, breathlessness, chest tightness, and wheezing in cases of acute bronchitis. For patients with chronic bronchitis during acute episodes, there generally is no fever, but the primary symptoms are persistent cough and expectoration, along with wheezing, breathlessness, and chest tightness. Additionally, symptoms may vary between the elderly and the young when they contract bronchitis, thus clinical symptoms are predominantly as described above.

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What should I do if I have tracheitis with chest tightness and shortness of breath?

Common symptoms of bronchitis include coughing and phlegm production, and some people may also experience chest tightness and shortness of breath. What should be done if chest tightness and shortness of breath occur? First, medication should be used according to the cause of the condition, such as using sensitive antibiotics if it's caused by a bacterial infection. If it is due to allergic factors, antiallergic drugs or corticosteroids can be chosen. In addition, symptomatic treatment can be considered, such as using bronchodilators to alleviate symptoms of chest tightness. Furthermore, if there is phlegm, expectorant medications can be used to ease symptoms and reduce respiratory tract resistance, which also helps relieve chest tightness.

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Is tracheitis easy to cure?

Bronchitis in clinical practice, due to different inducing factors and the duration of the disease course, is classified into different types. Therefore, the duration of treatment for different types of bronchitis also varies. For acute bronchitis caused by acute bacterial infections, clinical treatment usually involves medication for infection, cough relief, expectoration, and asthma relief. It can be cured in about 1-2 weeks. However, in cases of chronic bronchitis, it is generally not possible to achieve a complete cure. It leads to a non-specific inflammatory change in the bronchi, causing patients to experience recurrent symptoms of coughing, phlegm, and asthma year-round, which are not easy to alleviate. The medications used clinically can only improve some aspects of the patients' quality of life, but not cure the condition.

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What are the symptoms of tracheitis?

Tracheitis refers to the inflammation of the tracheal mucosa, usually caused by microbial infections, physical and chemical irritants, allergies, and other factors. Symptoms of tracheitis typically start acutely. Patients may experience fever, initially perhaps dry coughing or a small amount of mucous sputum. As the condition progresses, the amount of sputum may increase, coughing may intensify, and some patients may also experience blood in the sputum, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and other symptoms.