Asthma is a chronic disease that affects your airways.Your airways are tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. Asthma includes some symptoms such as wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, trouble breathing. If you have asthma the inside walls of your airways become sore and swollen. That makes them very sensitive.
Your doctor will diagnose asthma based on lung function tests, your medical history, and a physical exam. You may also have allergy tests. If your asthma become worse than usual it's called asthma attack. Severe asthma attacks may require emergency care and they can be fatal.
Asthma is treated with two kinds of medicines, quick -relief medicines to stop asthma symptoms and long term control medicines to prevent symptoms..
