Two very similar sounding illnesses are not exactly the same. Bronchitis and bronchiolitis both affect the airways that lead to the lungs, but bronchitis is more common in older children and adults while bronchiolitis primarily affects young children.
Acute bronchitis is an infection that attacks the bronchial tubes which lead to the lungs. It most commonly follows another upper respiratory infection such as a cold or the flu.
Bronchiolitis affects mainly young children and can have a variety of different causes - most of them viruses. It is one of the most common causes of wheezing in children.
These two illnesses are similar but aren't exactly the same. Be sure you know the differences between bronchitis and bronchiolitis before they affect you or your loved ones.
The author says to make sure you know the difference between bronchitis and bronchiolitis before they affect your loved ones, but then she doesn’t tell us the difference. The only difference noted is the age at which they are common.
If you click on the links titled “About Bronchitis” and “About Bronchiolitis” it goes into more detail about each one. There wasn’t room to write everything about them in a blog post.