Symptoms of asthma in a 7-year-old woman

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Asthma is a common respiratory disease, the causes of the disease are more, such as obesity, genetic, environmental and other reasons may be the culprit of asthma. So how to correctly judge whether you are suffering from asthma? In addition to chest tightness and shortness of breath, what are the other symptoms? Let's get to know.

Symptoms of asthma in a 7-year-old woman

Typical bronchial asthma is characterized by premonitory symptoms such as sneezing, runny nose, cough, chest tightness, etc. if not treated in time, asthma can occur due to exacerbation of bronchial obstruction. Severe cases can be forced to take seats or sit up breathing, dry cough or a large amount of white foam sputum, or even cyanosis. Some patients may relapse after several hours of remission, and even lead to persistent asthma.

There are also atypical manifestations of asthma in clinic, such as cough variant asthma. The patients cough for more than 2 months without obvious inducement, often attack at night and in the early morning, exercise and cold air induce aggravation, airway reactivity test has high reactivity, antibiotics or antitussive and expectorant drugs are ineffective, and bronchospasmolytic agents or corticosteroids are effective, However, other diseases causing cough should be excluded.

According to the difference of allergen and age of onset, exogenous asthma can be divided into exogenous asthma and endogenous asthma. Exogenous asthma often occurs in childhood and adolescence, and most of them have family history of allergy, which is type I allergy. Endogenous asthma mostly has no known allergen. In adults, it has no obvious seasonality, and has little history of allergy. It may be caused by infection focus in the body.

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Before the onset of allergic asthma, there are aural symptoms, such as sneezing, runny nose, cough, chest tightness, etc. if they are not treated in time, they may appear due to the aggravation of bronchial obstruction.