Chronic Bronchitis: Inflammatory Disease Of The Bronchial Tubes

Chronic Bronchitis Name: Institution: Course: Date: Chronic Bronchitis Chronic bronchitis is an inflammatory disease that is associated with inflammation of the bronchus tubes. Patients will experience a cough that brings up mucus, shortness of breath, low fever, tightness in the chest and wheezing. The patients tend to produce a lot of mucus which further complicates the ability to breathe (Medlineplus, 2018). It is commonly associated with patients that have been smokers, those that have worked or stayed in environments that have acute air pollution from dust and/or fumes for a long time. Given that it is chronic, it is a long-term disease and will keep coming back from time to time(Medlineplus, 2018). There are number of drugs that can be administered to patients that are suffering from chronic bronchitis among them Avelox (WebMD, 2018). This is an antibiotic which is used to treat bacterial infections. The medication works to stop bacterial growth in the respiratory system (WebMD, 2018). The factor of choice in this case is gender, where the research was directed at trying to establish if there is a relationship between being male or female to the administration of the drug. As it turns out, there is not an impact on the patients relative to their gender (Sullivan, Lettieri, Liu & Heller, 2001). Ideally this means that, there aren’t any issues associated with the administration of the drugs on either the ...