Can spring allergies cause "allergic asthma"?

Allergic asthma can be triggered by mold allergies as well as pollen. It’s a good idea to see a doctor for relief. It may be a combination of an inhaler and medication.

Definitely go to your doctor, they should hook you up with an inhaler. You’re experiencing allergy induced asthma.

More mucus produced because of allergies, too much mucus in the airways, makes them feel swollen, difficulties breathing out (though it feels like you can’t breathe in) : asthma.

Speaking as a 20 year old mild asthmatic who only ever suffers when exhausted or allergic to furs, pollen and dust.

I just got the perfect-o-fish award by editing this answer 5 times, eyyyy!

Yep. Worth having it checked out. Luckily I haven’t had a problem with my asthma in years, but whenever an attack was triggered by allergies I noticed that it started with a tickling sensation in my lungs. Then the tightness and coughing and shortness of breath soon followed.

This may be a long shot, but is there any chance it is anxiety related? Chest tightness and shortness of breath can be symptoms of anxiety. Are you stressed out?

Of course your doctor can tell you for sure what it is.

Absolutely, it has happened to me several times in about a 15 yr. period.
I live in the high foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, one year my neighbors felled about 50 huge Ponderosa pines on their property and the pollen cloud was like an atomic bomb. lol

I am not kidding, my entire house was enveloped in a yellow cloud of pine sperm. It was horrible, I had a terrible asthma attack that lasted for 2 weeks.

Get to your doc for some meds and an inhaler, maybe even some Prednisone. Good luck..I feel for you!

Thanks a lot everyone. This isn’t stress related, its probably from my allergies. Like @Coloma experienced, my entire town is plagued with yellow pollen coated cars. So I’m sure an inhaler will probably fix me up.

Ask the doctor if simply increasing the antihistamine dose or changing the brand is worth a try.

Allergic asthma is the most common type of asthma. My daughter has the same problem with spring time (and fall) allergies and cats. We had to put our cats outside and we noticed a great improvement with her symptoms. She’s sleeping much better at night now. As the others have said, an inhaler will help. Hope you feel better soon!

Yes I now have asthma because of my allergies. Being exposed for a long period of time to something your allergic to without adaquate treatment for the allergies it can set off the asthma. Get treatment now before it gets worse, because mine started in the winter my doctor and I both thought I kept getting colds until he took me out of work because I was so breathless and had a constant sinus infection that went on for months. I got better and returned to work and the same day I got sick again thats when I finally put together the fact that I they were doing construction at work and the possiblity I could be allergic to something they were stirring up in the air since everything started when the construction started. This went on from mid December thru mid March, once I got the right treatment everything finally got better but it left me with asthma permanently which does get set off like any other asthma I had to see a pulmonologist in order to get the proper diagnosis and he said allergies are none to cause asthma if you do not have proper treatment.