Asthma Symptoms
by JustinThe symptoms of asthma are very hard to distinguish. Even if your child has asthma, the symptoms may be so mild that they’re not even noticeable. The symptoms can be very severe and occur daily, or they can be somewhere in between the two. Most likely, the severity of the symptoms and frequency change throughout the year. This may be due to allergies that your child also suffers from.
A typical indication of asthma is wheezing. This is defined as the high pitched noise that occurs when the bronchial tube has inflamed and your child is breathing. It can be a loud or quiet whistling sound, but it’s there. This is the most common and easily distinguishable symptom. Along with wheezing comes coughing. This is different from a normal cough when your child has a cold as it is a dry cough that doesn’t produce much mucus.
Another symptom is chest tightness and shortness of breath which obviously leads to shortness of breath. This is caused directly by the inflammation of the bronchial tube, the definition of asthma. If untreated, this chest tightness can become permanent as there is irreversible damage to the bronchial tube and the lungs. This rarely happens. Your child may tire easy if they are doing any form of exercise because they cannot draw the required amount of oxygen into their lungs.
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