CLINICAL FEATURES :
Episodic Asthma:
In this form of the disease the patient has no respiratory symptoms between episodes of asthma. Parxyms of wheeze and syspnoea may occur at any time and can be of sudden on set. Attacks may be mild or severe and may lost for hours days or even weeks.
Chronic Asthma :
During an attack the chest is held near the position of full inspiration and the percussion note may be hypernesonant.
Breath sounds when not obscured by numerous high pitched poly phonic expiratory and inspiratory ronchi are vesicular in character with prolonged respiration. Severe asthma persisting from childhood may cause a pigeon chest deformity.
