Abstract

This paper aims to determine the effect of bronchitis in children on episodes of respiratory infections. In this research, 174 children from different hospitals in Iraq were included, distributed over ages ranging from 2-8 years, and the most frequent work in this study was for the age of 6 years for 35 patients in the patient’s group and 20 cases in the control group. In this study, 174 children were recruited, and they were divided into two groups, 100 children in the patient group and 74 in the control group. Patients were evaluated using several scales as (Score Acute respiratory illness Group patient CARIFS) and as (assessment outcomes of patient study according to cough scores). the results were found on days 7 and 20 of illness, children with bronchitis had significantly higher median CARIFS when compared with children control at 30.6±2.3 for a 2-year-old, and the study discovered an inverse relationship between the quality of life in addition to the initiation of symptoms of respiratory infections with the length of the period for patient children with a statistical significance p-value < 0.05.

Keywords

Bronchitis, Respiratory Infections Acute bronchitis pathophysiology