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Your lungs staging a wet, wheezy protest against literally anything you breathed.
means Inflammation of the bronchial tubes (the airways carrying air to your lungs), usually causing coughing, mucus, and chest tightness.
from Built from Greek bronkhos, 'windpipe,' plus the medical suffix -itis, meaning 'inflammation' — a pairing pattern coined in the 19th century as doctors were busy naming every inflamed body part they could find, from arthritis to tonsillitis.
- the cough
- outlasts the actual infection by weeks, rudely
- acute vs chronic
- one's a virus, one's basically smoking's resume
- antibiotics
- usually useless, it is almost always viral
- color myth
- green mucus does not mean you need a pill