If you know what started the attack, move away from it. Use your quick-relief asthma medicine. Stay calm for one hour to be sure your breathing gets better. Get emergency help from your doctor if you do not get better. Your quick-relief medicine does not help for very long or it does not help at all.
Breathing is still fast and hard.
It is hard to walk or talk. Your lips or fingernails turn gray or blue. Your nose opens wide when you breathe. Your skin is pulled in around your ribs and neck when you breathe. Your heartbeat or pulse is very fast.