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Your
Asthma Diagnosis Ensures Accurate Treatment
Although common asthma
symptoms like wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath and chest
tightness would make most people come up with their own asthma diagnosis,
some doctors would say “not so fast.” Sometimes your
physician needs to collect further information about your medical
background, your family history and the extent of your symptoms
before coming delivering an asthma diagnosis. Even with that information,
your doctor may still decide a breathing test or lung function test
is necessary to accurately give an asthma diagnosis.
When you meet with your doctor, tell her whether you’re experiencing
bouts of chest tightness, shortness of breath, coughing, or have
symptoms triggered when you exercise, are stressed or are exposed
to allergens like pollen. She will ask you if you have allergies
or if your family has a history of allergies or asthma to provide
you with an informed asthma diagnosis. Also, your upper respiratory
tract will be examined, and your doctor may look inside your nose
to look for signs of inflammation, and an increase in mucus or nasal
polyps. Plus, she will use a stethoscope to listen to your lungs
for any signs of wheezing or high-pitched whistling sounds when
you breathe out. This will indicate your airways are obstructed.
In order for your doctor to come up with an accurate asthma diagnosis
it is important for her to conduct various lung function tests such
as spirometry where you take deep breaths and powerfully exhale
into a tube that measures how well you breathe; or the challenge
test where your doctor has you breathe in triggers that may bring
on an asthma attack. There are other conditions that could be affecting
you which will eliminate the possibility of an asthma diagnosis,
and those include:
- Other lung diseases like chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease
- Airway tumors
- Bronchitis
- Pneumonia
- Pulmonary embolism, which is a blood clot
in the lung
- Congestive heart failure
- More
Consult your physician before giving yourself
an asthma diagnosis. Although you may be experiencing the same symptoms,
you may have another ailment that requires different treatments
and medications.
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