Michael Klaper

Not only might you have bronchitis, your symptoms define the disease – namely, cough and hypersecretion of mucus from an irritation (usually from infection) of the inner lining of the bronchial tubes of the lungs.

Incidentally, bronchitis differs from pneumonia in that bronchitis is limited to the inner bronchial tube lining, whereas in pneumonia, the infection has spread out into the substance of the lungs, infecting the microscopic air spaces, called alveoli.

… Antibiotics alone will not clear the mucus from your chest! One of the most self-defeating things a person with a lung infection can do is to sit quietly all day in a chair (in front of a computer or TV) breathing shallowly, and allowing the infected secretions to thicken and pool in the bronchial tubes and lower parts of the lung.