What is Bronchiectasis?
Bronchiectasis is often caused by recurrent inflammation or infection of the airways. Sometimes it begins in childhood after a more severe lung infection or inhaling a foreign object.

Cystic fibrosis causes about a third of all bronchiectasis cases in the United States. Certain genetic conditions can also cause bronchiectasis, including primary ciliary dyskinesia and immunodeficiency syndromes.

The condition can also be caused by routinely breathing in food particles while eating.

Symptoms often develop gradually, and may occur months or years after the event that causes the bronchiectasis.

They may include:

1) Bluish skin color
2) Breath odor
3) Chronic cough with large amounts of foul-smelling sputum
4) Clubbing of fingers
5) Coughing up blood
6) Cough that gets worse when lying on one side
7) Fatigue
8) Paleness
9) Shortness of breath that gets worse with exercise
10) Weight loss
11) Wheezing

Adopeted from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov