Bronchitis is only a terminology which tells you a condition. It does not tell you the acuteness or the chronicity of the diseqaase.it is very important to find out whether it is acute bronchitis or chronic bronchitis because the disease and the treatment has go to completely different implications. Acute bronchitis can have antibiotics as the treatment but acute bronchitis may not need antibiotics also because there are lot of conditions which can cause acute bronchitis. Even allergies can cause bronchitis. But under what condition the patient is seen decides the use of the antibiotics and it is a short course of treatment in acute bronchitis. By definition this chronic bronchitis recurs very often even when you treat it with antibiotics. So the definition of chronic bronchitis means that it has to recur every 2 to 3 moths every years and that decides the course of the treatment , whether you are treating it with the right amount of antibiotics and what is the duration of the treatment of antibiotics.

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