When people with asthma exercise, they may cough or wheeze and get more breathless than other people. They also become more breathless after they have stopped exercising. This is typical of asthma. Everybody gets a cold. But an asthma patient keeps coughing and feeling breathless even after the cold has cleared up.
Many people automatically think, 'cough, therefore chest infection'.
This is not true. In fact, asthma is one of the most common causes of a recurrent cough. These symptoms vary from person to person and from time to time in the same person. Some people have all the symptoms, while others may have only a cough or wheezing. Certain things tend to bring on symptoms of asthma.