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Bronchitis: The Complications

Bronchitis: The Complications

Bronchitis can cause several other complications to arise if the condition worsens.

Asthma

Asthma may put an effect on an individual’s performance at the workplace or at school. Children may miss school or college as a result of the difficulty in breathing. The lungs can become either partially or fully collapsed due to chronic lung scarring. It can also create numerous psychological challenges like stress, anxiety, and depression. Moreover, more severe lung complications have been linked to asthma, including status asthmaticus, and pneumonia. The patient may establish a condition that is called respiratory failure, which needs you to breathe by the mechanical ventilator machine. In several people, asthma can become so bad as well as the lungs also become so damaged which it does not properly respond to the suitable treatment.

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Pleural Effusion

This complication develops when the fluid grows up in among the layers of tissue between your two lungs and also when the wall of the chest gets infected. Pleural effusion can help to make your breathing very difficult.

Lung Abscess

The lung abscess is basically a cavity that is filled with the pus and which develops inside the lung tissues.

Bacteria in the Bloodstream

Bacteria which enter from your lungs to the bloodstream can cause infection to the other organs, possibly causing organ failure.

Endocarditis

It is the infection caused by the long-term untreated pneumonia and occurs in the inner lining of the heart.

Blood Poisoning

Blood poisoning or septicemia is a very rare complication of pneumonia. The symptoms of this condition include a change in normal mental behavior, like confusion and disorientation, fast heartbeat, and high temperature (usually higher than 100.4oF).

Bronchitis

Pneumonia is the most common complication of bronchitis. If acute bronchitis is left untreated, then it can cause chronic bronchitis. Complications of chronic bronchitis are:

  • Dyspnea, sometimes severe
  • Polycythemia (abnormally large concentration of RBC required to carry oxygen)
  • Pneumonia
  • Pneumothorax (collection of gas or air in lung leading to lung collapse)
  • Cor pulmonale
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Respiratory failure
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