{"id":280,"date":"2019-05-17T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T08:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/?p=280"},"modified":"2020-04-14T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:29:13","slug":"bronchitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Bronchitis&#8230;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cannot believe this but I just got diagnosed with bronchitis (vi\u00eam ph\u1ebf qu\u1ea3n).<\/p>\n<p>After a month of almost daily coughing, two days ago I got a fever. It began with gradual fatigue in the afternoon of 15\/5, then somehow I managed to teach the evening class. By 9.30 pm the fatigue intensified, and I started to feel muscle soreness. Classic symptoms of a fever here. Bought a thermometer and my temperature read a whopping 39 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>That night I was sweating and feeling chilly at the same time. Also had a throbbing headache so I could barely sleep. Was dead worried I&#8217;d contracted either dengue fever, malaria, or even worse, tuberculosis. All the symptoms I had experienced (prolonged coughing and fever) seemed indicative of tuberculosis. I had to go see a doctor soon.<\/p>\n<p>Woke up the next morning and somehow my temperature was back to 37. That&#8217;s weird; normally a fever lasts for several days. Anyway, I went to the doctor and was ordered to do a blood test for certain viruses, a chest X-ray, and an endoscopic exam of my nose and throat.<\/p>\n<p>The final result is that I have bronchitis. I was pretty surprised by this diagnosis &#8212; I thought even with an upper respiratory infection, my body would be able to stop it right at the throat. I thought I was pretty healthy. How on earth did it manage to get all the way down to my bronchi??<\/p>\n<p>The doctor says I&#8217;m lucky to have it treated early, otherwise I&#8217;d be in deep trouble if it made it way to my lungs and turned into pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so now I still have a lingering cough and a mild headache. Not the worst case scenario I guess. The biggest bummer is the realisation that my immune system is more vulnerable than I thought. How did you let a damn throat infection develop into bronchitis man.<\/p>\n<p>I did some Google research afterwards and came up with a couple of takeaways for my future habits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s best to sleep with a rotating fan. Unless it&#8217;s scorching hot outside, sleeping with the AC on is not exactly a good idea as the temperature at night can dip below the body&#8217;s liking.<\/li>\n<li>Mild, moderate exercise is ideal for improving immune functions. Intense exercise might actually have the reverse effect.<\/li>\n<li>There are viruses, bacteria, and pathogens everywhere in the air. There isn&#8217;t much you can do to prevent them from invading your body except for perhaps washing your hands regularly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannot believe this but I just got diagnosed with bronchitis (vi\u00eam ph\u1ebf qu\u1ea3n). After a month of almost daily coughing, two days ago&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[83,85,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}