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Do you ever experience difficulty breathing? Describe. |
Dyspnea difficulty breathing can indicate number of health problems most of which are respiratory in nature |
| Do you have difficulty breathing when you sleep? |
Orthopnea ( difficulty when lying supine ) may be associated with congestive heart failure |
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| Do you snore when you sleep | Sleep apnea (period of breathing cessation during sleep) may be source of snoring and gasping |
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| Do you have chest pain | Pain sensitive nerve endings are located in the parietal pleura thoracic muscles and trachea bronchial tree but not the lung |
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| Do you have cough | Continuous coughs are usually associated with acute infections ,whereas those occurring only early in the morning are often associated with bronchial inflammation or smoking |
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| Do you produce any sputum when you cough? |
White or mucous sputum —viral infections or bronchitis Yellow or green sputum — bacterial infection |
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| Blood in sputum (hemoptysis) serious respiratory infection |
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