Is breathing difficulty an asthma disease?

Is breathing difficulty asthma? Speaking of asthma, I believe many friends know that its typical symptom is difficulty breathing, but not all difficulty breathing is caused by asthma. However, because 80% of patients with difficulty breathing are caused by asthma, it can be said that difficulty breathing and asthma are directly related. Then here please learn more about the relevant knowledge about asthma.

Patients with acute attacks of bronchial asthma often experience symptoms such as dyspnea, cough, and wheezing, and may also have systemic symptoms such as fever, fatigue, weakness, and profuse sweating. Severe cases may experience chest pain, headache, confusion, and even coma and respiratory arrest. Difficulty breathing is a symptom of bronchial asthma. It is recommended that friends should treat asthma in a timely manner when they find this symptom of asthma.

Before the acute onset, patients generally experience prodromal symptoms, including dry and itchy throat, chest tightness, dry cough, mental tension, etc., followed by chest tightness, chest pressure and even a feeling of suffocation. The typical symptoms of bronchial asthma are dyspnea, mainly difficulty in exhaling, accompanied by wheezing. Due to the feeling of difficulty breathing, patients are often forced to sit or semi-recumbent position, unable to lie flat, and gasp for breath.

Coughing and expectoration are also the main symptoms of bronchial asthma attacks. Coughing is caused by allergic reactions in the bronchial mucosa. Early coughs are mostly irritating dry coughs. As the bronchial mucosa becomes edematous, inflammatory exudates increase, or bacterial infections occur in the bronchi, a large amount of secretions form sputum and are discharged during coughing. The sputum is mostly white foamy, and if accompanied by infection, it may be sticky white sputum or purulent sputum. An acute asthma attack can last from tens of minutes to several hours. Some patients can recover on their own or after treatment.

This article will stop here to introduce the question of whether breathing difficulties are caused by asthma. For breathing difficulties caused by non-asthma diseases, patients need to go to the hospital for a physical examination to see what disease is causing it. Only in this way can they determine the cause of their illness, treat their disease, and restore their body to health as soon as possible.