What are the risks of acute bronchitis?

What are the risks of acute bronchitis?

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...

The risks of acute bronchitis also include extending down into the actual meat of the lung and developing pneumonia. But if acute bronchitis occurs over and over and over again, it can become then chronic bronchitis. At that point, the lung starts to remodel itself in ways that are detrimental, ultimately, to the way air flows in and out of the lung. So the long-term attacks, frequent attacks over and over again that turn into chronic bronchitis, allow for significant problems, as it relates to the lungs.