Allergic bronchitis

Abstracts. Internal illnesses. Allergic bronchitis G. L. Walbott (KI. Woch. 1930, No. 5) draws attention to a group of bronchitis, which is often encountered, but little mentioned in the literature, accompanied by phenomena similar to asthma. These bronchitis is characterized by frequent paroxysmal coughs similar to whooping cough. A. is distinguished by: 1) para-asthmatic bronchitis, which are outside the group of allergic diseases, characterized by a known etiology (whooping cough, nonspecific infections, tuberculosis, etc.) and the absence of indications of an allergic condition and 2) asthmatic bronchitis. In the last group, there are three subspecies: a) allergic bronchitis takes an independent place, as an expression of "allergic diathesis" and is distinguished by the presence of symptoms characteristic of allergies (anamnestic indications, heredity, positive skin tests, eosinphilia, reaction to adrenaline); b) intercurrent infectious bronchitis in asthmatics.