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Medical Video: What Asthma Looks and Feels Like
The initial signs of an asthma attack are the way your body warns that an asthma attack will appear soon. To recognize what your initial symptoms of asthma are for you, you must learn from previous asthma attacks, so that you can prevent an asthma attack in the future, or try to make the attack less severe.
The initial symptoms of an asthma attack may appear a few days or several hours before an asthma attack occurs. Here are the signs:
- Cough that doesn't heal, especially at night
- The number of peak flow meters is low or declining
- Shortness of breath
- Very weak, especially during exercise
- Coughing or wheezing (the sound of breath sounds like a soft whistle) during exercise
- Can't breathe after exercise
- Easily tired
- Having trouble sleeping at night
- Change mood, for example, being more silent or easily angry
- Symptoms resemble runny nose or allergies such as runny nose or stuffiness, sneezing, coughing, sore throat, and headache
- The chest feels tight as if someone is hard pressed
- Itchy chin
- Dark eye bags appear
- Thirsty
- Itchy or runny eyes
- Stomach ache
- Headache
- Fever
- Restless
- Face color turns red or even pale
- Cleanse often
- Recurrent eczema
How to prepare when asthma symptoms occur?
The symptoms of asthma mentioned above are the most frequently reported by patients. Maybe there are still other signs that have not been listed. In addition, not everyone experiences the same symptoms.
So, it is important for you to pay attention and listen to your own body carefully. Asthma attacks can suddenly get worse. So if you recognize the signs from the start, you can take precautions immediately.
We recommend that you always record your condition every day. Starting from what you feel, what asthma symptoms are experienced, and what your peak flow meter is. Your peak flow meter figure describes how fast you can exhale. The lower the number, the more asthma you can become.
If you can't recognize the initial signs of an asthma attack, it's better to use a peak flow meter every day and record any changes you experience. From there you can see for a long time the pattern of the appearance of asthma symptoms in your body as early as possible.
After knowing the signs, immediately overcome any symptoms of asthma. If you suspect recurrent asthma because there are certain triggers, try to stop the activity first. For example, if you are recurrent from dust, stop activities that make you exposed to dust (such as cleaning your house), move away from dusty places, or use a mask to block dust. You can also use the medicine for asthma before the symptoms get worse.
Any steps that must be taken to prevent an asthma attack should be discussed with the doctor who is handling you. If you don't know it, immediately consult a doctor.
