I have bronchitis with pneumonia and when I told someone they used the word bronchial pneumonia. Is that the same thing?

I will make it simpler for you.I am a Resp Practitioner.Your airways are Bronchus or the tubes in your lungs that the air flows through…like water in a garden hose.The start big then branch orr getting smaller and smaller until they get to your aveoli.this is were gas exchange happens.body gets oxygen and CO2 or carbon dioxide it released from your blood stream into your lungs and exhaled.There ae different types of Pneumonia.Bronchitis is simply inflammation of your airways.Pneumonia effects the lung parenchyma (Lung Tissue itself, not airways)but you really never really just have one or the other.You have a combination of both in some way or other.Just depends on how your dr. wants to explain it to you.You probably just have enough of both, to call it Bronchial Pneumonia.I hope that is simple enough for you.Don,t over analyze it too much.just take your meds right if you are on any, and take it easy for awhileI think the Nurse made it a bit too complicated for you.Hope I helped

Pneumonia is a lower respiratory infection and involves the lungs.When you have bronchial pneumonia there's also inflammation in the main stem bronchus, a part of the upper respiratory system. (The respiratory system is divided into upper and lower same as the urinary tract)It helps greatly to know something about the anatomical structure of your airway and how the trachea leads to the main stem bronchus, then at the carina, branches off left and right into the secondary bronchi leading into the lungs and which, in turn, branch into smaller bronchioles and terminate at the alveoli, deep within the lungs.Google up a diagram so you can follow this.

So, bronchial pneumonia, also called bronchopneumonia, is inflammation of the bronchus and infection in areas of the lungs.It can include lobes in one or both lungs but it's patchy.It's here and there.And it's most often viral, not bacterial, triggered by a severe cold or flu.

Do you understand what bronchitis is?The word ending “itis” means “inflammation of”.Therefore, bronchitis means inflammation of the bronchus.Go back to the first paragraph, second sentence–”When you have bronchial pneumonia there's also inflammation in the main stem bronchus, a part of the upper respiratory system.”See it?You have both pneumonia and an inflammation of the bronchus, i.e. bronchitis.You have bronchopneumonia, aka bronchial pneumonia, aka bronchitis and pneumonia.Variations in name only for the same thing.Voila!