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The first attacks of asthma usually occur in childhood, although it is not uncommon that affects adults who had never had respiratory problems. Asthma in children can be triggered by a cold. Also influence the onset of the disease hereditary factors and the fact that the child has parents who smoke. Recent studies indicate that children who have received lengthy treatment with antibiotics during their first year of life are more likely to have asthma.

As in the case of adults, emotional tension, sudden temperature changes and environmental pollution, are agents that can trigger the onset of asthma.

Asthma is a disease that can be controlled with proper therapy and care to avoid extrinsic causes that provoke it. Even so, it is almost impossible to prevent asthma attacks.

These crises are accompanied, others of dyspnea or shortness of breath, coughing, bronchial irritation increases, mucus, wheezing, bronchial spasms and, occasionally, fever.