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CAN IT BE ASTHMA - Different Types of Asthma |
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| A number of ways have
been used to divide and group people with asthma into different types. Your
doctor may have told you that you suffer from 'moderate' asthma or 'allergic'
asthma. In reality, it is very difficult to be so black and white about
pocketing people into different groups. In essence, all asthma is the same in how if affects peoples lungs. The airways are twitchy and irritable with too much mucus produced from their swollen, inflamed linings. What does vary enormously is how badly asthma affects people and what triggers their symptoms. As a hypothetical example: Sam only has symptoms of wheezing and breathlessness after cross country running and never has symptoms at any other time; his brother Jon is fine when running but frequently wakes up in the night coughing. They both have asthma but it affects them in very different ways. There is often overlap between the different types so people can fall into more than one 'group'. In addition, people can sometimes move from one group to another as asthma varies and changes over time. You can obtain more detailed information by going to the commonly asked questions below.  Are
there different types of asthma? Do
these types have anything in common? |
Topic "Can it be Asthma?" Updated 14th August 2003
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