Symptom: Wheezing
Wheezing: Breathing difficulty with specific wheezing sound.
Detailed cause information for symptom: Wheezing:
Medical articles on symptoms: These general medical articles may be of interest:
- Symptoms of the Silent Killer Diseases
- Symptoms and Medical Malpractice
- Medical mistakes and their rates, causes and prevention
- Deaths and sudden death
Types of Wheezing: stridor (28)
Wheezing type of: Breathing symptoms (165), Breathing difficulties (158), Stridor (28)
Symptoms: symptom center, symptom groups, symptom descriptions
Possible causes of symptom: Wheezing: The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Wheezing as a symptom. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.
- Asthma
- Respiratory infection
- Common cold
- Croup
- Bronchitis
- Bronchiectasis
- Pneumonia
- Pulmonary aspergillosis (type of Nosocomial infections)
- Chronic bronchitis
- Emphysema
- COPD
- Pulmonary edema - see also causes of pulmonary edema
- Bronchomalacia
- Tracheomalacia
- Foreign bodies in the trachea or bronchi
- Pulmonary eosinophilia
- Tropical eosinophilia
- Aspergillosis
- Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Stridor - see also the causes of stridor
- Occupational asthma
- Bysinnosis - cotton duct allergy
- Respiratory foreign body
- Tumor
- Lung cancer
- Left ventricular failure
- Carcinoid syndrome
Conditions listing symptoms: Wheezing: The following list of conditions have 'Wheezing' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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Conditions listing complications: Wheezing: The following list of conditions have 'Wheezing' or similar listed as a complication in our database. The distinction between a symptom and complication is not always clear, and conditions mentioning this symptom as a complication may also be relevant. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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Last revised: Nov 9, 2003
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