Acid Reflux Cough or Is It Asthma?
At any given moment in life, everything boils down to how you are feeling. If you do not feel well, it does not matter how much money you have, or how well your children did in school, at that point all that matters is your health. Today’s question is one that may seem a bit strange, but it is one that should be addressed straightaway. When you experience an acid reflux cough, how do you know if it is from your acid reflux or your asthma? No really think about this.
Coughing is a common symptom and sign of asthma, COPD, and a whole slew of other diseases, telling which one is very important. Why? Because the asthma cough requires different treatment from the reflux couch. And since 10 people die from asthma everyday in America.
Knowing which is the right one is, well, a matter of life and death.
You Must Know Your Acid Reflux Symptoms!
Anyone that is old enough to read this has experiencing the annoying an bothersome sensation of indigestion or heartburn before. It is often described as a burning sensation that emanates from the stomach all the way up to the back of the throat for some people. Everyone is different. For some, it will stay in the stomach, While others feel it in their chest cavity area. People can be serious debilitated from it or it may pass with a glass of warm milk. It just depends upon you as to how it will present.
Do You Have These Feelings?
Acid reflux symptoms will most closely resemble those of heartburn. Both have that burning feeling coming from the stomach to the mouth region. The burning may start immediately following a meal or much later after wards. It may enter the chest area and move up to the throat. Sometimes feeling nauseated is how some people would describe it. No matter what, you cannot escape the pressure that builds in your gut up to your throat. Many reflux symptoms are that way, they will be uncomfortable and then grow over time to be down right debilitating.
Since so many of the symptoms radiate from the stomach and move up the into the mouth region, a cough may present. This is what is meant by an acid reflux cough. The cough often makes people think of respiratory diseases like asthma or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Coughing with regards to asthma, often has wheezing associated with it. Although, many cases now present where patients are having asthma attacks. All that the doctors can hear is a tight airway characterized by wheezing and low inhaling and exhaling of air. Some patients describe that sensation as trying to breath through a straw. You just cannot get enough air through the straw to feel food or safe. Panic often follows because of fear and the lack of air (oxygen).
