What are the symptoms of asthma easily confused with?

Shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, chest pain… are common symptoms in some respiratory diseases. In fact, these symptoms can also be symptoms of other dangerous diseases. The distinction of diseases with similar symptoms plays an important role in the effective diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

1. Symptoms of Asthma

Children with asthma usually have symptoms of on-the-go before the age of 10 (about 50%) and the average age of the disease is 7 years. For adults, on the contrary, the disease can arise at any time.

Signs of on-the-on-one asthma are varied, slowly on-on-starting are common in the elderly, who are addicted to tobacco; sudden onset of the disease is common in young people. When an outbreak occurs, the person often manifests:

  • Cough: Often uns specific, dry cough; sometimes often spitting a lot of white, sputum, sticky (mussel seeds); cough usually appears after shortness of breath decreases. There are cases in which cough is the only symptom of an outbreak: Night cough, persistent, recurrent.
  • Shortness of breath: This is a symptom that is fundamentally characteristic of an outbreak of asthma. Severe shortness of breath, mild in batches, may run out on its own or after taking bronchodilators. There is recurrent wheezing, coughing a lot and increases at night or when it is near morning, coughing after exercising or exercising, shortness of breath in a certain season or weather changes or seasonality, coughing or shortness of breath when experiencing a certain allergen. These symptoms improve with the use of bronchodilators.

Shortness of breath

Asthma causes 2017 symptoms of shortness of breath
  • Tight chest: The patient has a feeling of choking or squeezing the chest. This symptom increases during shortness of breath and decreases with shortness of breath.

In addition to an asthma outbreak there are usually no physical symptoms. However, during an outbreak, the following physical symptoms may appear:

  • Symptoms of upper respiratory tract stenosis: Characterized by wheezing.
  • Mild airway obstruction, squeaking only heard at the end, then inhaled trying. Medium obstruction, hissing appears at 1 or 2 mill, polyphonic wheeze. Severe congestion, squeaking little or no appearance.
  • Small airway obstruction, no squeaking
  • Increased breathing frequency, severe blockage of breathing frequency may not increase
  • Prolonged exhalation, short, short breathing
  • Secondary respiratory muscle shrinkage
  • Tough talk, intermittent speaking
  • Alveolar barrier drops or loses (dumb lungs) in severe airway obstruction.
  • Cyanosis of the skin and mucous membranes: is a severe sign of an outbreak of asthma.
  • Anxiety, fear due to hypoxia in the brain.
  • A mild outbreak is normal in thoracic shape.
  • Severe, persistent outbreaks, chest cages can be rainbow-like, forming temporarily or fixedly.

Asthma shortness of breath chest

Outbreak asthma should be detected and treated promptly

2. Distinguish asthma from other conditions

Asthma symptoms are often easily confused with some conditions such as:

  • Allergic rhinitis: This common pathology causes symptoms that are confusing with asthma. The usual symptom of allergic rhinitis is that it also often causes runny nose, which in it leads to coughing attacks. You need to go to medical facilities to see if you have prescription medications or show what kind of buying outside the pharmacy is fine.
  • Heartburn: Gastroesophageal reflux (GERD) increases gastric acidity and spills into the entsophasophageal. During heartburn – a burning sensation beneath your sternum that causes coughing symptoms or feels like you have to always have a voice. Heartburn can lead to asthma symptoms.
  • Depression: If you feel anxious, panicked, you can breathe faster and deeper, which inc leads to too much CO2 presence in your blood. As a result, you feel like you haven't had enough oxygen to make it difficult to breathe. In fact, some people with asthma also have anxiety problems, stress-like depression (and they can exacerbate each other) . But it's also likely that you don't have asthma at all. To solve the problem, you need to go to a health professional to find out your health problem.
  • Chronic disease, long lying down, decreased mobility: Weakness or overweight can also be the cause of shortness of breath. According to Dr Lockey: "Every January a patient sends a patient to a gastric bypass surgery room to help them lose more than 45kg." Once the weight is reduced, asthma will also disappear. Some hypotheses are given that point to the connection between asthma and overweight. According to Dr. Laurel Stephenson, a lung specialist at the University of Minnesota, asthma often goes hand in hand with obesity. However, some evidence suggests that, sometimes, only weight is a problem (asthma, by definition, is identified as contractions in the airways).

Obese women

Some overweight, obese subjects may be the cause of shortness of breath
  • Serious lung or heart disease: Although this is not really possible, a small number of people who believe they have asthma have cardiovascular diseases such as suffocation, bronchial obstruction, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

3. Note when in the treatment of asthma

During the treatment of asthma, you should note some of the following basic problems:

  • Do not smoke, avoid smoke, smog, charcoal stove smoke, dark odors;
  • Do not keep pets in the house such as dogs, cats;
  • Keep a clean and airy living environment;
  • Avoid eating foods at risk of allergies: pupae, shrimp, crab, seafood.

Currently, Share99 International Hospital has an asthma screening package for patients with asthma. Share99's asthma screening package helps:

  • Early detection screening for timely disease control and treatment
  • Perform clinical examinations, ask for a history of the disease, measure respiratory function, examine the ear and nose and throat and screen for asthma.

SKTQ - general health check-up

A general health check will help you detect dangerous diseases

Share99 International Health Hub has a team of highly qualified, experienced doctors, fully equipped with modern equipment to diagnose the disease and arrange the pre-treatment stage in the most effective way. Especially when coming to Share99 International Health Hub, patients do not need to wait long, quick examination time and are carefully guided by experienced medical staff to use specially designed medicines, aerosols, lifestyle changes in a positive way so that patients can easily comply with disease management. asthma.

To register for examination and treatment at Share99 International Health Hub, you can contact Share99 Health System nationwide, or register for an online examination HERE

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