how is asthma diagnosed?

[lilretro]

what kind of test do they do??

[sa_char_uk]

They do a test where you breath forcefully into a tube. It checks how much air is held in the lungs.

[accidentshappen]

They do a "peak flow" test which determines the amount of air flowing in and out of your lungs.

[Bef]

I remember being checked for asthma, they do a peak flow test, a simple test where you breathe in and then force the air out of your body as hard as possible into a tube. Its very simple and you get used to doin it (trust me!). They also made me run round the car park for 5mins then do peak flow again.

[Reggie girl]

My daughter seemed to have a cough and was slightly wheezy from October to May which was worse at night . There was also a tone in her voice which when you know it you can recognise as being Asthma She had had whooping Cough when she was 2 3/4 and I thought this was a condition left over from that . When she had a medical at school she told them about this and they sent me a letter home saying these were classic asthma symptoms .She had to do peek flow tests others have described this to you and was put on medication a preventative inhaler {brown} and Byrecany [It treats the sumtoms by opening up the air ways. ]the blue one. hope this helps you there are many triggers to attacks and if you find what triggers you and avoid that it helps.