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Breathing Difficulties - First Aid
Alternate Names : Difficulty Breathing - First Aid, Dyspnea - First Aid, Shortness of Breath - First Aid
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Symptoms & Signs
The following symptoms are often associated with difficulty breathing:
- Gurgling, wheezing, or whistling sounds
- Using chest and neck muscles to breathe
- Bluish lips, fingers, and fingernails
- Cough (if the person also has phlegm/sputum, this may be pneumonia; a barking cough in a child is croup)
- Chest pain (could be a heart attack or injury; sharp chest pain could be pulmonary embolism or collapsed lung)
- Chest moving in an unusual way as the person breathes (may indicate an airway or chest injury)
- Confusion, light-headedness, weakness, or sleepiness
- Fever
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• Definition
• Overview & Considerations
• Causes
• Symptoms & Signs
• Prevention
• First Aid
• Do Not
• Call Immediately for Emergency Medical Assistance if
• Pictures & Images
Topics that might be of interest to you Diseases & Conditions
• Acute Bronchitis
• Anaphylaxis
• Asthma
• Chronic Bronchitis
• Croup
• Emphysema
• Epiglottitis
• Heart Attack
• Heart Disease
• Heart Failure
• Pertussis
• Pneumonia
• Pneumothorax
• Pulmonary Embolus
Other Topics
• Bleeding
• Confusion
• Cough
• CPR
• Fainting
• Heimlich Maneuver
• Skin Discoloration - Bluish
• Weakness
• Wheezing
Review Date : 9/1/2003
Reviewed By : Jacqueline A. Hart, M.D., Senior Medical Editor, A.D.A.M., Inc. Previously reviewed by Kevin G. Wheeler, M.D., Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network (1/28/2002).
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