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[|Human|] I am wondering why I have another upper respiratory infection?  I was diagnosed with bronchitis this fall and it finally went away after 3 rounds of different antibiotics.  A chest xray was taken and they said it was fine.  Should I be concerned?  It took me almost 3 months to be completely recover from bronchitis.  I am coughing again (not a lot) and have green mucus.
[|AI|]  Thanks for your question completely understand your question actually in chronic bronchitis cough will remain either less or more through output if cough with expectoration, that too if sputum is yellow or green or foul smelling that means there is a secondary bacterial infection which happen edit can be associated with other symptoms of fever or breathlessness better to consult a pulmonologist who can start you on antibiotic sit will be better if pulmonologist will send a sputum culture and sensitivity so that if inspire of the empirical antibiotics if cough and purulent sputum remains accurate therapy can be started cough in chronic bronchitis is a mechanism to clear out excess of secretions that is a normal phenomenon in bronchitis that protects airways to get damaged due to retained secretions, which can lead to infections exact treatment for chronic bronchitis is inhaled Chat Doctor.