Asthma Symptoms: Symptoms Reveal Chronic Asthma - Or Not
It does no good to discuss asthma symptoms without knowing what asthma is ... Asthma is defined as a chronic disease with no cure (although other medical models disagree with this conclusion). It is a disease that causes the bronchial tubes, the passageways between the nose/mouth and the lungs, to become inflamed. The asthma sufferer has bronchial tubes (below) that are particularly sensitive to irritants and they become inflamed. This inflammation makes it difficult to breathe.
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Every asthma patient does not exhibit every asthma symptom with every attack, but common ones include:
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An asthma sufferer often feels like she can't catch her breath and there is a frightening feeling of breathlessness, as though the patient is suffocating.
There is a wheezing or whistling sound in the chest.
Many asthma sufferers have frequent allergy attacks although they may not recognize them for what they are, especially at first.
Often it feels as though someone or something is squeezing, or sitting on your chest
There is a special sensitivity to cold, dry weather.
Certain kinds of exercise can bring on an attack - like running in cold weather or swimming in very chlorinated pools.
Prolonged laughing or crying, or being near a particular allergen can cause a coughing spell or asthma attack
Asthma sufferers frequently breath faster and more noisily than those with normal lungs
Certain asthma drugs will quickly (within minutes) relieve symptoms There is no "always" with asthma symptoms. Within the same person, an attack may be triggered at one time but not another, even though they are apparently the same situation. Or an asthma episode might be mild one time and severe at another.Also, symptoms don't appear on any schedule. Some people might have symptoms every day - and then suddenly cease for months or years.
The good news, though, is that most asthma symptoms can be managed and asthma sufferers can have normal lives, active and involved in every way.
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