To know if you have asthma or not

Asthma is a common disease - more than 300 million people worldwide suffer from asthma, including more than 30% are children. Without proper treatment, people with asthma may have off from work, restricted movement or even emergency treatment or hospitalization. Fortunately, early detection and treatment of asthma can help people with asthma can be a life more completely, an active life.

Here are some questions that can help you and your doctor evaluate you have asthma? Remember: only your doctor can determine if you have asthma? In these questions, once you answer is "yes", please print this page and bring it to talk to your doctor.


1.As athletes, you have a cough or difficulty breathing?

2. You can hear the wheezing - you keep in your chest?

3. You have a cough or difficulty breathing when it is very hot or cold?

4. You have a cough or difficulty breathing or no exposure to pets, dust, smoke or other irritants?

5. When you sleep, you wake up due to shortness of breath or cough?