Symptoms of chronic bronchitis in the elderly mainly include: 1, cough, sputum, wheezing, dyspnea and other symptoms, the symptoms are lighter during the day, and the symptoms are aggravated at night or when getting up or when the body position moves, and the sputum is a bit more; 2, there are symptoms of infection during the acute exacerbation of the patient, and symptoms such as coughing up yellow sputum and fever may appear, and these symptoms indicate an acute aggravation of the disease, which requires the patient to go to the hospital for treatment; 3, symptoms of exertional shortness of breath, in Patients may experience shortness of breath after activity or going upstairs, and when the disease develops into emphysema and slow-onset lung, shortness of breath after activity may occur. If the patient has repeated episodes of coughing, sputum production, tightness of breath and dyspnea, it is necessary to go to the hospital to further evaluate the emphysema condition and check whether it develops from chronic bronchitis to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and whether it needs further treatment, all of which need to be understood in advance.