The goal of treatment is to relieve the symptoms with medications and supportive measures. Bronchodilators such as albuterol may be prescribed to open constricted air passages. In otherwise healthy people, antibiotics are rarely needed and are only used if the sputum becomes yellow, gray or green.
Decongestants also help alleviate the symptoms of bronchitis.
Prognosis Symptoms usually abate within 7 to 10 days in the absence of prior chronic pulmonary disease . Call your health care provider if being treated for acute bronchitis and breathlessness develops, or if coughing up blood . Please read it.