Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Symptoms of asthma

The most common symptom
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Symptoms of asthma

Asthma symptoms vary from person to person, both in kind and in its severity and frequency of occurrence. Patients usually present with asymptomatic periods, followed by others in which the symptoms are intensified, and whose intensity can be very serious.




The most common symptoms are:
  • Coughing:  is generally irritating, with little mucus, and sometimes quite dry. Usually occurs in the form of coughing, especially at night and with exertion. 

  • Shortness of breath or dyspnea: usually during exercise. In severe exacerbations may appear to speak, or even at rest.

  • Wheezing: wheezing you hear with a stethoscope to examine the patient, and are produced by the passage of air through the airways narrower.

It can also cause tightness in the chest, which costs expel thick mucus and nasal symptoms such as itching, sneezing, stuffy ...