Hi everyone, I am scheduled to go to Florida to see my sister this Sunday. I've had bronchitis since last Friday (viral). What's REALLY scaring me is that for the last 4 days, my output has been liquid. Normally, there is good form(gross-sorry). No pain, fever, just feeling very bloated. My colorectal doc said he doesn't think there's anything urgent; if there was an obstruction, I would be in alot of pain. He said let's wait a couple of days before an x-ray. Anyone have advice?
THANKS!!!!
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I suspect it isn due to your virus. Even though it targets the upper respiratory system, the effects can be more broadly systemic. Long story short, many of us get gut symptoms with any sort of virus. You absolutely would have serious abdominal pain if you had an obstruction of any import.
Are you sure you are OK to travel with the bronchitis (not to mention exposing others to the virus)?
Jan 
Thank you, Jan for the quick response. My gp didn't mention it to me last week, but I will call her tomorrow to double check. What's kind of interesting is, I was on Remicade for 2.5 years and NEVER got sick! I've been off of it for 8 weeks, and I've been sick as a dog. As a middle school teacher, we're near more germs than a small country!
I'm in classrooms all the time (supervising student teachers) and the scariest ones are preschool classes. Yesterday, the kids, the teachers and the assistants were all sick! The minute I left their classroom I washed my hands up to my elbows, practically bathed in Purell, rinsed/gargled my mouth with mouthwash and sprayed my nose with saline solution and blew, blew, blew! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I didn't catch whatever was so abundant in that classroom! I'm really paranoid about contracting pulmonary infections because for me they are so difficult to get rid of!
