Symptoms of asthma - a typical attack of asthma usually begins with such symptoms:
- feeling of weight in the chest
- wheezing while breathing
- shortness of breath.
- a strong dry cough, although it may also appear;
- coughing up thick, sticky sputum.
The acute attack of asthma usually ends spontaneously within a few hours.
The origins of asthma are rarely full-blown, according to scheme, as given above - they are usually difficult to recognize.
Patients receive asthma threat predators as characteristic symptoms: "strangling in the middle", "light pressure in the cage", patients feel resistance to breathing, eg difficulty - "in getting more air in the lungs"; "I am breathing very badly" "faster fatigue"; "shortness of breath", etc. Apart from a clear symptom - "murmurs and wheezes in the lungs" (but here you also need to exclude the symptoms of cold disease!) - these are non-specific symptoms that equally match the symptoms of coronary heart disease or an ineffective heart. To determine the cause of real or exaggerated risks of asthma, a diagnosis of a specialist is necessary.
An important cough is the cough,
It is important to cough especially nocturnal or provoked by physical exertion, cold air, laughter, tobacco smoke, which can be considered in some cases as the only symptom of mild bronchial asthma, and respiratory infections during infancy and early childhood.
In small children
In the case of young children, the most suspicious symptom is a continuous cough, not due to cold disease. A week-long, chronic cough that is not currently undergoing an infection is usually allergic and may indicate the predisposition or onset of asthma symptoms. Negative allergy test results do not exclude such a scenario. Altered allergy mucous membranes of the respiratory system are less resistant to viral infections, which appear more often and deepen the predisposition to asthma. A child constantly coughing, "without a reason" requires specialist consultation with a doctor, which is an allergist or pneumonologist and appropriate diagnostic tests.
MEDICAL EXHIBITION
In the diagnosis of the disease, which is bronchial asthma, the key is medical history, which is the so-called subject research. Controlled by the doctor's questions, the patient's report describing the symptoms of the ailment allows to identify the illness.
DIAGNOSIS TESTS OF ASTHMA
At the same time, the physician tries to objectify the results of the medical history using the physical examination of the patient. Respiratory tests help in the diagnosis of asthma - spirometry, peak flow and PEF measurements and others.
