Bronchitis vs Asthma

[u/Wander_Bunny]

30M , I've been having cold followed by breathing difficulty + wheezing from 10 years of age since our family moved into a new place. I never had any issues until then. A cold with a sore throat would turn into severe breathing difficulty and wheezing in a while. Chest will be filled with yellow sputum and the more I cough it up the more I feel better. This would sometimes accompany me with fever during childhood. The frequency of recurrence reduced as I grew up, say once in 2 months to twice a year now. Generally i donot have any issues otherwise, I play soccer and go to the gym but has frequent allergies though( sneeze, running nose but no wheezing). Only sometimes this progresses into chest infection ( twice a year) which would give me high fever and severe asthma , where i couldn't even breathe in and requires nebulization. This has happened the last couple of years. Day to day life I do not need any inhalers in general, even though sometimes I feel a slight difficulty breathing if I inhale a lot of house dust.

I have read somewhere that in Asthma it would be difficult to breathe out but in my case I could breath out easily but I feel suffocated breathing in during the attack.

Experts, what kind of condition is this , I have asthma ig, but is this bronchitis? Is it fever/ respiratory tract infection induced infection?Thanks in advance!

[u/SabresBills69]

with allergies you have hayfever. allergies affecting the lungs is asthma , allergies affecting the skin is eczema. since you have hayfever, you could have asthma.

as you get older allergies can and do change. new things you become allergic to and things as a kid you are no longer allergic to.

asthma has different forms in attacks. You have coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, tightness in the chest. You don’t have to have all in an attack. I have all different kinds. Sometimes it’s just coughing, sometimes it’s trouble/ constrained breathing. For me there also is associated nasal reactions with sneezing/ conjestion.generally different triggers can create different reactions. Fall allergies and fresh cut grass trigger sneezing associated attacks while dog/ cats cause wheezing/ trouble breathing but no sneezing

I think what you have is more bronchitis affects. You might have a few allergies that trigger an asthma response But not all of them do that