The best prevention is well-managed asthma and early detection and intervention in attacks. Under treatment leads to more deaths than over treatment of asthma. Exercise is as important for those with asthma as those without. Properly controlled asthma can allow children to participate in most or all activities. Coughing is often as much an indication of asthma as wheezing.
Some asthmatics cough and wheeze, others only cough.
Asthma is triggered by emotional upsets. Not all people with asthma have allergies. Acute asthma which we generally refer to as an asthma attack. Chronic asthma produces symptoms on a frequent basis, in some cases almost constantly. It is characterised by frequent symptoms, ranging from very mild symptoms to full-blown acute attacks.