Bronchitis Injections - What You Need To Know?

2024 Author: Josephine Shorter | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 21:43

Injections for bronchitis

Content:

• What injections to take for bronchitis?
• What injections for bronchitis are usually prescribed?
• Antibiotics for bronchitis
• Glucocorticosteroids for bronchitis
• Bronchodilators in the treatment of bronchitis

Most of the drugs used to treat bronchitis are available in tablet form, which makes them easy to use on their own. If there are problems with oral medication, the patient is given an injection. Injection with drugs against bronchitis is carried out only as directed by a doctor in case of a severe attack of the disease.

What injections to take for bronchitis?

In what cases are injections prescribed for bronchitis:

• If other medicines and methods of treatment are ineffective and after five days from the start of treatment, the patient's condition has not improved, but worsened;
• For infants with severe cases of bronchitis, an injection of the drug is prescribed, if the medicine cannot be given in the form of a syrup or tablet;
• Exacerbations of chronic bronchitis;
• Obstructive pulmonary disease in children.

What injections for bronchitis are usually prescribed?

• Antibiotic therapy with injections is prescribed to patients who belong to one of the above categories of patients;

• Glucocorticosteroids - prescribed for chronic, acute bronchitis, allergic bronchitis have powerful anti-inflammatory properties, remove allergic reactions and have an immunosuppressive effect;
• Bronchodilators are drugs that relieve swelling and spasm of the bronchi, injections of bronchodilators are indicated for severe obstructions.

Mucolytics and drugs that stimulate expectoration are often taken in tablet form or in the form of inhalation. For allergic bronchitis, your doctor may prescribe desensitizing agents and antihistamines.

Antibiotics for bronchitis

Since the disease is viral in nature, antibiotic therapy in most cases does not work.

However, antibacterial drugs can be helpful in the following cases:

• With obstructive pulmonary disease and severe chronic bronchitis, the risk of bacterial complications increases, the use of antibiotics allows you to avoid infection and improve the patient's condition;
• Antibacterial drugs in injections are prescribed for elderly patients whose immune systems are weakened.
• Patients with pronounced symptoms of toxicosis and leukocytosis;
• For infants, whose immunity is just being formed, with bronchitis, antibiotics are prescribed in injections, since the oral form of the drug in this case is problematic to use.

Antibiotics in injections instantly enter the bloodstream, which can provoke complications in patients with individual drug intolerance. Therefore, a sensitivity test for this drug must be done before injection.

Groups of antibiotics used to treat bronchitis:

• Sulfonamides and trimethoprim are combined antimicrobial agents. The drugs in this group include Bactrim, Rankotrim, Sinersul, Berlocid, Groseptol, Duo-septol, Rankotrim, Sulotrim. They are prescribed for the treatment of exacerbations of chronic bronchitis. The resistance of microorganisms to medicinal substances of this group develops slowly, side effects and complications after using the drug are rare. In some cases, after ingestion, a feeling of nausea, decreased appetite, skin reactions, diarrhea may appear. More rare side effects include fungal infections of the mouth and hematologic complications.
• Penicillins are one of the safest groups of antibiotics, however, there is a possibility of developing an allergic reaction, which is why it is necessary to first make a sensitivity test. They are used in combination with substances that enhance the effect of penicillin, beta-lactamase inhibitors, which block the action of bacterial enzymes. Among the most common drugs in this group are Augmentin (it is prescribed primarily for pathologies of the respiratory system), Amoxicillin, Ampicillin, Osmapox, Hikontsil, Amoxiclav, Amtid, Grunamox.
• Broad-spectrum antibiotics, for example, Gentamicin, which is prescribed when microorganisms are resistant to previously used antibiotics for bronchitis complicated by a bacterial infection.

List of antibiotics: Antibiotics for bronchitis in adults and children

Glucocorticosteroids for bronchitis

This group of drugs is prescribed only if other drugs are ineffective even at an increased dosage. Glucocorticosteroids have an anti-inflammatory effect, reduce bronchial hyperreactivity, which prevents an allergic reaction and increased mucus production, characteristic of bronchial asthma.

Glucocorticosteroids in injections are prescribed with caution because of the danger of possible side effects, including myopathy, gastric ulcer, osteoporosis, and an increased risk of diabetes mellitus. Therapy with glucocorticosteroids is carried out under the strict supervision of a physician; such drugs as Medopred, Decorin, Solu-Decorin are used in it.

Bronchodilators in the treatment of bronchitis

Bronchodilators, allowing to relieve bronchial spasm, are used in the symptomatic treatment of chronic bronchitis, as well as in the treatment of patients with bronchial asthma.

Common bronchodilators injectable form of release are inolin, izadrin, orciprenaline sulfate, ipradol.

Article author: Mochalov Pavel Alexandrovich | d. m. n. therapist

Education: Moscow Medical Institute. IM Sechenov, specialty - "General Medicine" in 1991, in 1993 "Occupational Diseases", in 1996 "Therapy".