What is Asthma ?

Whenever someone mentions the term asthma, I remember my friend who is an asthmatic patient since childhood. I can vividly recall the incident when she was literally fighting for her life when she suffered an asthmatic attack in school. Therefore, one needs to know what asthma is. When I asked my family doctor the question- what is asthma, he gave me the following explanation. Asthma is a common chronic disease of the respiratory system. Its symptoms include wheezing, coughing, chest-congestion, and breathlessness.

Medication induced asthma refers to the inflammation and swelling of the airways in the lungs that is caused due to consumptionof a particular medication. There are several medications that can induce an asthma attack in patients. The symptoms that are associated with this type of asthma include wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, rapid breathing, chest pain, chest pressure, and constricted airways.