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Symptoms of the disease:
• severe cough accompanied by whistles, because the access of air to the lungs is reduced, there is increased production of mucus and thus contraction of the airways.
• Tightness in the chest.
• Difficulty breathing and speaking.
• Sweating when efforts are made to breathe, sise has a coughing fit.

Diagnosis of Illness:
• The doctor takes into account symptoms, perform a medical history, physical examination the patient practice and makes some laboratory tests may include chest radiograph, blood tests and lung function.
• It is also conducting a study to measure the air that you breathe in and out, with the help of a device called a spirometer, which records changes in breathing and can help the doctor determine whether a patient has asthma.
• The sensitization tests are useful to identify which patients are allergic, which consist in drawing a “map” of substances that are most likely to generate an asthma attack. Read the rest of this entry »