• What causes bronchitis?

I feel like I get bronchitis almost every year when the weather is dry and the air quality is bad. What causes me to have bronchitis so frequently? I'm 37 years old, and I smoked for 10 years (but I quit last year).

2 Answers

  • Internist
  • Katy, Texas

Prolonged coughing with seasonal recurrence is the result of multiple factors which are high during the particular season. High amount of pollen exposure may have induced a hypersensitivity in your immune system. A viral infection common in spring and summer can trigger a respiratory inflammation which due to the hypersensitive immune system becomes exaggerated both in severity and duration. A common after effect of such viral infection is allergic rhinitis causing post nasal drainage which is the commonest cause of cough lasting more than two weeks.

  • Pulmonologist
  • Farmington, CT

Acute bronchitis is caused by viruses and, rarely, bacteria; chronic bronchitis is primarily caused by tobacco smoke.

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