Difficulty breathing

Contents for Breathing difficulties

Introduction: Breathing difficulties
Causes (2922 conditions)
Causes of Types
Drug causes (828 listings)
Drug interaction causes (915 listings)
Diagnostic tests (23 listings)
Questions your doctor may ask (and why) (22 listings)
Combined symptoms
News (88 listings)

Breathing difficulties

Difficulty breathing: Difficulty breathing is listed as an alternate name or description for symptom:

Breathing difficulties

Causes of Breathing difficulties (Difficulty breathing): See detailed list of causes below.

Breathing difficulties (medical symptom): Various types of breathing difficulty (dyspnea).

Introduction: Difficulty breathing

Breathing difficulties (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 Breathing difficulties (Difficulty breathing)

The list of medical condition causes of Breathing difficulties (Difficulty breathing) includes:

All 2922 causes of Breathing difficulties

More Specific Symptoms for Difficulty breathing:

Review the causes of the following types of more specific symptoms for Difficulty breathing:

Wheezing (764 causes)
Choking (130 causes)
Rapid breathing (411 causes)
Shallow breathing (163 causes)
Shortness of breath (1528 causes)
Shortness of breath from exercise (1320 causes)
Orthopnea (42 causes)
Irregular breathing (28 causes)
ARDS (39 causes)
Difficulty breathing when lying down (30 causes)
Wheezing on exertion (1 cause)
Accessory muscle use (14 causes)
Acute Dyspnoea (8 causes)
Apneustic respirations (7 causes)
Bradypnea (45 causes)
Chest expansion, asymmetrical (13 causes)
Cheyne-Stokes Respiration (33 causes)
Expiratory wheeze (19 causes)
Nasal flaring (51 causes)
Nocturnal dyspnoea (8 causes)
Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea (10 causes)
Respirations, grunting (5 causes)
Respirations, shallow (7 causes)
Respirations, stertorous (5 causes)
Retractions, costal and sternal (11 causes)
Asthma-like reaction (2 causes)
Hyperpnea (11 causes)
Hypoventilation (61 causes)
Breathlessness on exertion (30 causes)
Asphyxiation (3 causes)
Suffocation (4 causes)
Stridor (695 causes)
Stertorous breathing (31 causes)

Related Symptoms for Difficulty breathing

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

Wheezing (764 causes)
Choking (130 causes)
Shortness of breath (1528 causes)
Chest pain (1053 causes)
Difficulty breathing (2922 causes)
Hyperventilation (92 causes)
Lung symptoms (3280 causes)
Chest symptoms (1355 causes)
Adult respiratory distress syndrome (54 causes)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Aspiration of a foreign body
Asthma (320 causes)
Cor pulmonale (61 causes)
Emphysema
Flail chest (9 causes)
Heart failure (274 causes)
Myasthenia gravis

Broader Symptom Types for Difficulty breathing:

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

Breathing symptoms (3381 causes)
Breath symptoms (3023 causes)
Respiratory symptoms (5166 causes)
Lung symptoms (3280 causes)
Throat symptoms (3410 causes)
Mouth symptoms (6864 causes)
Head symptoms (10192 causes)
Face symptoms (8109 causes)

More Symptom Information for Difficulty breathing

For a medical symptom description of 'Difficulty breathing', the following symptom information may be relevant to the symptoms: Breathing difficulties (symptom). However, note that other causes of the symptom 'Difficulty breathing' may be possible.

More information on symptom: Breathing difficulties: