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Wheezing
Sign or symptom reference page from the Everyone Healthy database.
! Seek urgent medical care if warning signs appear
A symptom can have many possible causes. Some symptoms need urgent assessment, especially when they are severe, sudden or rapidly worsening.
Get urgent medical care now if there is any severe, sudden, rapidly worsening or worrying symptom, especially:
- chest pain, pressure or pain spreading to the arm, jaw or back
- trouble breathing, blue lips, severe wheeze or choking
- stroke-like symptoms such as face drooping, arm weakness or speech trouble
- collapse, fainting, seizure, confusion or extreme drowsiness
- severe bleeding, black stools, vomiting blood or major injury
- severe allergic reaction, swelling of the face/throat or widespread rash with breathing trouble
- severe abdominal pain, severe headache, stiff neck or sudden vision change
- signs of severe dehydration, sepsis, high fever with worsening illness, or symptoms in a baby/young child that concern you
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Wheezing
Wheezing
Breathing with difficulty and noisily (with a whistling sound mostly)
Tags: breathe, whistle
Symptom classification
Body areaChest
Body areaLungs
Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
57- Acute Bronchitis
- Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia
- Acute Lung Injury
- Airway Tumors
- Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis
- Allergic Rhinitis
- Alpha Antitripsin Deficiency
- Anaphylactic Reaction
- Ascariasis
- Asthma
- Bronchial Carcinoid
- Bronchiolitis
- Bronchitis
- Bronchogenic Carcinoma
- Byssinosis
- Cannabis Dependence
- Carcinoid Syndrome
- Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia
- Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Churg Straus Disease
- Cor Pulmonale
- Cough
- Cricopharyngeal Incoordination
- Croup
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Emphysema
- Eosinophilia
- Eosinophilic Pneumonias
- Heart Failure
- Hookworm Infection
- Human Metapneumovirus Infections
- Lofflers Syndrome
- Lung Cancer
- Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonitis
- Lymphoid Interstitial Pneumonia
- Mesothelioma
- Microsporidiosis
- Nursing Home Acquired Pneumonia
- Occupational Asthma
- Parainfluenza Virus Infections
- Pneumothorax
- Pulmonary Edema
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pyelonephritis
- Relapsing Fever (Tick Fever)
- Relapsing Polychondritis
- Respiratory Chest Infection
- Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection
- Schistosomiasis
- Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms
- Toxic Inhalation Injury
- Toxocariasis
- Upper Respiratory Chest Infection
- Ventilatory Failure