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Experiencing Cough And Shortness Of Breath. Why Am I Feeling This?
Hello, my name is cindy I am a 21 year old women, and well I have a question that ii started to nvolves in my health. Today at 10pm I was feeling short out of breath and also experienced coughing and weezing. At least that s what my partner told me, because I asked him to hear my breathing . My godparents told me that when I was born the put me on some kind of machine for me to ba able to . Though it has been over 20 years and I have never experienced this before in my life, also my father smokes and has smoked around me since I was 5 years old, and well I was wondering what I have. Also when I exercise I feel out of breath and it s hard to breath. Thank you
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Wed, 19 Dec 2012
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you may be suffering from allergic bronchitis in which your respiratory tube from throat to lungs is irritated due to chronic exposure to smoke.it may be environmental or change of place also. if your hemoglobin is lesser also you get shortness of breath. consult a GP
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