The most common symptoms of a chest infection include a persistent cough, wheezing, breathlessness, a high temperature, coughing up phlegm, a rapid heart rate and chest pain or tightness. People may ...
This condition, caused by the Mycoplasma pneumoniae bacteria, initially appears as mild cold symptoms but progresses to a persistent, disruptive cough. Sharma noticed the symptoms in her 12-year-old ...
Bronchitis and pneumonia can cause similar symptoms. But while bronchitis is an infection of the bronchial tubes, pneumonia is an infection in the alveoli.