Difference between asthma and pneumonia

Asthma and pneumonia are two different diseases. Asthma is a chronic inflammation of the airways. This inflammation of the airways is sterile and causes hyperresponsiveness of the airways, resulting in paroxysmal airway spasms, resulting in paroxysmal cough, chest tightness, wheezing and other related manifestations. Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs caused by various pathogenic infections, of which bacterial infections are the most common. Pneumonia patients are mainly manifested as cough, expectoration, chest pain, fever and other related conditions, sometimes accompanied by chest tightness performance. Although pneumonia and asthma can be manifested as chest tightness, but the essence of the two is not the same. It should be noted that asthma patients can sometimes show acute attacks in the case of respiratory tract infection, such as pneumonia can induce acute attacks of asthma, this situation asthma and pneumonia are present at the same time.