Does acute bronchitis cause shortness of breath and chest tightness?

　　For acute bronchitis, you may not be too familiar with it, nor do you know much about this acute bronchitis and whether it can cause shortness of breath and chest tightness. So let’s find out today if this acute bronchitis can cause shortness of breath and chest tightness? To understand this problem, first we should know what is acute bronchitis?　　Acute bronchitis is an acute inflammation of the bronchial mucosa caused by infection, physical or chemical irritation or allergy. A patient who has an acute attack of bronchitis in a short period of time without a history of recurrent bronchitis is called acute bronchitis. The disease mostly involves both trachea and bronchus, so the correct name should be acute tracheobronchitis. It is characterized clinically by a cough with (or without) increased bronchial secretions.　　The clinical symptoms of acute bronchitis are different for different causes.　　A. Acute bronchitis caused by viral or bacterial infections is similar to influenza and is mainly characterized by fever, coughing and sputum, and basically no clinical symptoms of chest tightness and shortness of breath in patients who usually do not have underlying diseases of the whistle system and cardiovascular system.　　For acute bronchitis caused by physical and chemical irritation and allergic factors, coughing, coughing and shortness of breath are the main symptoms, and basically no high fever will occur.　　Third, if acute bronchitis induces asthma, or if you have asthmatic bronchitis, you will have symptoms such as difficulty in whistling, chest tightness and breath-holding caused by tracheal spasm, accompanied by croup.　　This shows that acute bronchitis can cause shortness of breath and chest tightness, but not all triggers caused by acute bronchitis will appear shortness of breath and chest tightness. Once the chest tightness and shortness of breath occurs, no matter which disease it is caused by, it is necessary to send to the doctor for treatment and symptomatic treatment, such as: oxygen, the use of β2 agonists and other asthma medication.