When you know how to control asthma, it no longer controls you. Asthma is a lung disease. It can be life threatening. Asthma is chronic. In other words you can live with it every day.
Asthma causes breathing problems.
These breathing problems are called attacks or episodes of asthma. Take asthma medicines for your asthma. When asthma symptoms do not stop, get help. Any one of these symptoms may mean that you have asthma .You can have one or more of these symptoms or even different ones. Symptoms are clues that let you know that you are having an asthma attack.