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My son having chesty cough he is asthmatic?

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It's possible: A persistent cough is one of many symptoms that asthma patients can have.Yet this overlaps with colds, flu, sinus infections, bronchitis, etc. I seldom use the label of asthma unless there are recurrent episodes of wheezing, unrelated to any sort of lung infection. One basic truth is that all things that wheeze are not asthma & all coughs are not asthma either.

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Answered 8/6/2019

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