Is there a chest tightness or shortness of breath that is asthma?

Common symptoms of asthma are familiar to everyone, but it does not mean that asthma-like symptoms are asthma, and some other diseases need to be ruled out. The common ones that we need to identify are the following.

Is there a chest tightness or shortness of breath that is asthma?

(1) Breathing difficulty caused by heart failure: also known as cardiogenic asthma, common in a variety of heart disease caused by left heart failure, the symptoms of the attack is similar to asthma, but cardiomyopathy mostly has hypertension, coronary heart disease , history of rheumatic heart disease, etc., typical patients often cough up pink foam sputum.

(2) Lung cancer: When central lung cancer causes bronchial stenosis or infection, wheezing or asthma-like symptoms may occur, but the dyspnea or wheezing symptoms of lung cancer are progressively aggravated, often without obvious incentives, and cough may have blood stasis. ;

(3) asthmatic bronchitis: in fact, chronic bronchitis with asthma, more common in the elderly, with a history of chronic cough, wheezing for many years, there is an aggravating period;

(4) lesions in the trachea: foreign bodies in the trachea, tumors, endometrial tuberculosis and other diseases, causing obstruction of the trachea, can lead to similar symptoms;

(5) Pneumothorax: For adolescents with thin and tall body, and patients with pulmonary bullae in the lungs, sudden chest tightness and shortness of breath need to consider the possibility of pneumothorax;

(6) Neurosis: In some sensitive people, when the mood is tense, the breathing is too fast, the conscious breathing is difficult, and the qi is not enough to see the doctor. The identification is simple for the doctor, and generally no harm to the patient.