Breathlessness

Shortness of breath

Breathlessness: Breathlessness is listed as an alternate name or description for symptom:

• Shortness of breath

Causes of Shortness of breath (Breathlessness): See detailed list of causes below.

Shortness of breath (medical symptom): The feeling of being short of breath

Introduction: Breathlessness

Shortness of breath (medical symptom): Breathing difficulty of any kind (or any kind of "shortness of breath") is a potentially life-threatening emergency. It can indicate numerous dangerous causes such as heart attack, pneumonia, or pulmonary embolism. There are other less serious causes, but these highly dangerous conditions need to be considered. Refer to the causes of breathing difficulty or causes of chest pain. These symptoms need to be diagnosed immediately by a medical professional because they can represent a life-threatening emergency.

Causes of Shortness of breath (Breathlessness)

The list of medical condition causes of Shortness of breath (Breathlessness) includes:

• Some possible causes of shortness of breath include:
  • Exercise
  • Exertion
  • Poor physical condition
  • Obesity

All 1528 causes of Shortness of breath

More Specific Symptoms for Breathlessness:

Review the causes of the following types of more specific symptoms for Breathlessness:

• Shortness of breath from exercise (1320 causes)
• Difficulty breathing when lying down (30 causes)
• Acute Dyspnoea (8 causes)
• Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea (10 causes)
• Hypoventilation (61 causes)
• Breathlessness on exertion (30 causes)

Related Symptoms for Breathlessness

Research the causes of these related symptoms that are similar to, or related to, the symptom Breathlessness:

• Difficulty breathing (2922 causes)
• Noisy breathing
• Slow breathing (11 causes)
• Rapid breathing (411 causes)
• Anthrax
• Pnuemonia
• Fibrosing alveolitis
• Atelectasis (22 causes)
• Hypersenstivity reactions
• Interstitial lung disease
• Sarcoidosis

Broader Symptom Types for Breathlessness:

Research the causes of these symptoms that are more broader types of symptom than Breathlessness:

• Breathing difficulties (2922 causes)
• Shortness of breath from exercise (1320 causes)
• Exercise symptoms (1392 causes)
• Breath symptoms (3023 causes)
• Breathing symptoms (3381 causes)
• Respiratory symptoms (5166 causes)
• Mouth symptoms (6864 causes)
• Lung symptoms (3280 causes)
• Movement symptoms (6001 causes)
• Throat symptoms (3410 causes)
• Brain symptoms (2787 causes)
• Neurological symptoms (9575 causes)
• Muscle symptoms (7251 causes)
• Nerve symptoms (9132 causes)
• Musculoskeletal symptoms (6264 causes)
• Head symptoms (10192 causes)
• Face symptoms (8109 causes)

More Symptom Information for Breathlessness

For a medical symptom description of 'Breathlessness', the following symptom information may be relevant to the symptoms: Shortness of breath (symptom). However, note that other causes of the symptom 'Breathlessness' may be possible.

More information on symptom: Shortness of breath:

• Shortness of breath

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