How is bronchitis usually treated?

How is bronchitis usually treated?

Richard Sheldon (Medical Advisor to the CA State Respiratory Care Board) gives expert video advice on: How is bronchitis usually treated?; Should I take antibiotics for bronchitis?; What is the difference between bronchitis and pneumonia? and more...

Bronchitis again, if it's a virus, the treatment is to just apply systematic relief with decongestants, cough suppressants. Things that will liquefy the material that's being manufactured down in the lung, so that it's easy to bring it up. The cough suppressants many times are actually compounds that will liquefy mucus and help you bring it up. But if it is obviously bacterial, such as there is lots of pus, lots of fever then, antibiotics.