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Respiratory treatment

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Sometimes it is necessary to ask a question when you already know the answer!

The trachea is the dividing point for upper and lower respiratory tract infections.
What most posters mean when they write that a URI can be life threatening is a Lower RTI, ie, bronchitis/pneumonia.
 
Presumably, an untreated URI could progress fairly quickly into a LRTI?
 
Yes, often an URTI, which may start as a viral problem, will "settle" down into the lungs and a secondary bacterial infection will then affect the lungs as a LRTI.
 
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