asthma attack??

Question

i have asthma and today i think i had an asthma attack and it is the first time it has happened to me(im 13)! i felt dizzy, was wheezing, had shortness of breath, and i could barley see. it happened after i ran 400 meters at pe and it lasted about 20mins and then i turned back to normal after resting at my school office. My friends said it could be dehydration since i barley drank water today. My Questions are Is this really an asthma attack? Wat causes it? Wat are the Signs/Symtoms of an asthma attack?

it was very hot

Answer 1

It could have been. It also could have been dehydration or heat exhaustion. Talk to a doctor if you are worried, especially if it happens again. Check out site below for more info.

Answer 2

Asthma is an allergy and is triggered by something. The best non medication treatment for asthma is learning your triggers and avoiding them. Common triggers are smoke, dust, mold, mildew, plants, dust mites, pets and grass/weeds.

If you can not figure our your triggers, you may need to see an allergist and have allergy screening done. This may point out your triggers.

The National Asthma Prevention Program and the Expert Panel of Diagnosis and Management of Asthma both agree if you have to use a prescription inhaler such as albuterol more then two time per week, your asthma is NOT in control and you will need a prescription controller medication.

Controller medications are steroids (Asthmacort Asthmanex, Flovent, Pulmocort), Leukotriene modifier (Singulair, Aculade, Zyflo) or mast cell stabilizers (Cromolyn sodium, Intal, Tilade).

You may want to talk to your doctor about several strong controller medications and maybe Xolair shots.

If you want a proven, all-natural way to cure your asthma, without having to pay for useless medications with harmful side-effects, then this is the most important page you'll ever read.

Answer 3

Here is what I found:
Asthma is an unwelcome intruder in a person's life. It is a chronic lung disease and it can't be cured. But there are several unique features of the disease that are not found with most other respiratory diseases.

Asthma is reversible. With good treatment, the damage to the lung can be reversed or minimized.

It can be controlled by avoiding asthma triggers and taking the right medicines.

Asthma attacks usually can be predicted. Asthma episodes normally do not occur suddenly, without warning (although it may seem that way at times). They develop over a period of time, providing a chance to start countermeasures to ward off an attack.

Changes in the external environment may signal an increase in the irritating effect of certain triggers for some people with asthma:

Decrease in the environmental air quality (increasing pollution index)

Increase in the pollen count

Windy, dusty conditions

High humidity and high temperature

Low humidity and low temperature


The best course of action on such days is to avoid them if at all possible by staying indoors where the environment can be better controlled.

Early warning signs of an asthma episode may include symptoms such as:

Runny, stuffy nose

Sneezing

Chin or throat itchiness

Headache

Feeling or looking tired

Reliever drug being used more often than usual

Difficulty sleeping because of symptoms such as coughing

Physical activity brings shortness of breath

Reliever drug brings no relief

Peak flow stays in the red zone after using rescue medication

Difficulty speaking

Walking is difficult

Feeling of fright

Faint-headed


What to do: Go to the closest hospital emergency department immediately or take medicine perscribed to you.

For more info go to the website below. I hope this helps!

Answer 4

I have had asthma for about 25 years. You could have had an attach today, but excercise indused asthma is usually not as severe. Attacks to me happend when my rescue inhaler would not work anymore and I would not be able to breathe for 6 or so hours at a time. hot drinks and or pot would help briefly, but I would always end up in the hospital. I grew up in the netherlands, and still today pot is the only thing that truely will open up my lungs. Allergies from dog and cat are what cause it for me,.

Answer 5

What you felt after your 400 meter run are symptoms of asthma attack. There are many causes that triggers of asthma attack. allergies of all sorts, cold weather, too much exposure from the heat of the sun , fatigue and stress

Answer 6

I do not know if you understood all the long list. But I am going to encourage you to tell your parents to visit the following website along with you. It contains information that can help you forget about asthma attacks.

www.adtoolsconcepts.com/healthcare

Answer 7

if you were wheezing, it could be exercise induced asthma. you might see about getting a rescue inhaler. a couple of different kinds are 1] albuterol 2] combivent 3] xopenex. they all do the same thing. the xopenex does not have cardiac side effects, but you'll pay more.

Answer 8

yes it was and that