Talk:Bronchitis
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I need to kmow if at anytime Chronic Bronchitis can become contagious. I live in a house with a 2 month old baby and he just got over RSV. At the time he contracted RSV I had Chronic Bronchitis flare-up. Could I have been the cause of it?--70.210.254.122 (talk) 21:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- I am not a doctor. I doubt that having chronic bronchitis necessarily casts one in the role of Typhoid Mary. I gather that chronic bronchitis is more a condition than a communicable disease. The condition may make one more susceptible to contracting a disease, so (without becoming obsessive about it) one might take note of the first recommendation here (for one's own sake and that of others):
- http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_section_details.asp?text_id=3338&channel_id=2026&relation_id=18291
- Wash hands
- Some of the other recommendations may have varying degrees of practicality. "Avoid crowds" may be more doable — and reasonable — at some times than others. Consigning oneself to living in a bubble is almost never necessary and is not a decision to be made without a lot more counsel than one might obtain here.
