Which of the below listed things trigge... - Living with Asthma
Which of the below listed things triggers your asthma attack?
15 Voters11
Infections (flu, colds etc)
8
Exercise
7
Tabacco smoke
7
Air pollution
6
Dust mites
5
Mold
3
Pets
2
Cockroaches
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It's really hard for me to answer this question with any certainty since I also have emphysema.
I know my triggers but have been caught by surprise once. My neighbor was barbecuing and put sauce on the chicken. It gassed off and came in my window where I was sitting at my computer. I started coughing and a couple days later I was in the doctor's office getting my prescription for Prednisone and cough medicine. That time it was two months. I've had worse.
Infections mainly. Never have an infection without acute asthma. We are redoing allergy tests now. Consensus in the past was that I wasn't allergic. Possibly I'm not allergic but airways are hypersensitive to irritants. Dust makes my chest feel tight.