Breathless battles and wheezy whispers: The trials of living with asthma.

The lungs' airways swell and narrow due to the chronic illness of asthma. It results in breathing difficulties such as wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. Its side effects include lung damage. It is one of the most common chronic illnesses affecting children and adults. The asthma symptoms that manifest at night or in the early morning hours include wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. If you have this disease, you have it all the time, yet attacks only occur when your lungs are in pain.