Credit Odd Andersen/Agence France-Presse â Getty Images. 1  MOSCOW â President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President-elect Donald J. Trump spoke by telephone for the first time on Monday, agreeing to review what both consider the poor state of relations between the two countries, according to a statement from the Kremlin.
Coughing, recurrent bronchitis and shortness of breath, especially when exercising, are also ways that asthma appears. â¢ The two most common triggers of asthma in children are colds and allergens. â¢ Diagnosing the precise cause of asthma is sometimes difficult because two or more causes may be present in one child.
Asthma is caused by chronic (ongoing, long-term) inflammation of these passages. 1  When the inflammation is triggered by any number of external and internal factors, the passages swell and fill with mucus.  Muscles within the breathing passages contract (bronchospasm), causing even further narrowing of the airways.