What is a bronchospasm (or bronchial spasm)?
I’ve had a cough for 4 weeks now. I went to the doctor’s like a week and a half ago. I got a chest x-ray and he said there was a little bit of stuff in my lungs, it wasn’t pneumonia, and he was going to treat it like bronchitis. I feel fine and I don’t have a fever, just a cough that is sometimes dry and sometimes isn’t. When I do cough something up, its like kind of clear/white. Earlier today when I started coughing, it felt like something around where my throat or chest was started closing or something, and I could barely breathe. It sounded really weird when I was trying to breathe. I don’t know what wheezing sounds like, but it might have been like that. It went away after about a minute, and I kept coughing a lot after that, it was a more productive cough. It scared me because its the first time this happened. My mom said it might have been a bronchial spasm, so I was wondering what that is. Also, I don’t smoke, I’m not around smokers, and I don’t have asthma.
