Asthma Symptoms
Asthmatic patients show varied symptoms. A common set of symptoms can be concluded only after studying different symptoms of individuals. You may find many of the symptoms similar to those in other diseases.
The typical symptoms that I am going to mention hereafter may be in common with heart disease or respiratory infection. A very fine understanding of the symptoms is very necessary for a doctor to properly diagnose asthma as it is sometimes very confusing.
These are the most recognised symptoms of asthma:
- Wheezing
- Shortness in breathing
- Delay in expiration
- High heart beat
- over inflation of the chest
Facts of Asthma
Asthma is classified on the basis of frequency of attack and level of severity of symptoms. The results of pulmonary function tests also plays an important role in classification of asthma.
- Thirty percent of the people affected with asthma suffer 2 episodes of asthma attack in a week. They fall under the category of patients affected with mild and intermittent symptoms who have normal breathing otherwise.
- Thirty percent of the people affected with asthma suffer 2 or more persistent episodes of asthma attack in a week. They fall under the category of patients affected with mild and persistent symptoms who have normal breathing otherwise.
- Forty percent of the patients suffer from severe and persistent -- almost daily, attack and have abnormal breathing.
