where does asthma make you hurt?

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Please give advice. My 7 year old daughter was told by a nurse practitioner that she has exercise-induced asthma. The nurse didn't listen to her lungs or anything. She just based it on the fact that I told her that sometimes after running around my daughter grabs her chest and says it feels funny. Sometimes she does act like she is out of breath just for a minute. So she prescribed an inhaler.

Lately though the common complaint is that "it hurts" right below her neck. She says it is right where the skin goes down. You know that part right in the middle right below your neck that feels like skin is covering a hole. (Is this part of her trachea?) Would that be asthma? That seems too high up to me, so I don't know if she neeRAB her inhaler or not. I don't know what else that could be.

I am hesitant to use her inhaler if she doesn't need it. Thanks for any advice!
 
It could be. Take her to a pediatric pulmonologist for a true asthma evaluation. If she has EIA, she should be medicating BEFORE cardio...not waiting until the attack happens. Get a proper action plan from the pulmo.
 
I also wanted to add that it seems this pain right below her neck happens more when she first lays down to go to sleep...
 
That's another indication it could be asthma. Asthmatics often have trouble breathing when they lay down.
 
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