Can a person develop asthma in their late 20's...

[73sunflowers]

Even if there's no family history of it.  On Weds. I woke up with a terrible cough that had me coughing stuff up and the more I coughed the more I couldn't breathe. I could feel my air passages closing. Last spring I had gotten sick like this and had pretty much the same symptoms. The Dr then gave me an inhaler to use. Today I went in to the dr. At first he thought it might be pneumonia because I was weasing. He gave me a neublizer treatment and then listened to my lungs again and ruled that it was virus that settled into my chest inducing the asthma attack. Now I have an inhaler again and it's helping. I have no history of asthma other than what happened last year. But I wonder if I might be developing it.

[National Jewish]

Asthma is an ongoing lung problem with

[starion]

When folks have wheezing in connection with an infection, it's generally NOT labeled asthma.  It is hoped that the wheezing will clear up shortly after the infection resolves.  It IS possible to develop asthma at ANY age, regardless of family history.  It is important to minimize your exposure to lung irritants and triggers, and of course try to avoid infections (easier said than done).
Follow up with your doc if you continue to have wheezing, so you can receive optimal treatment and hopefully it will promptly resolve.  You may wish to have a breathing test, called a spirometry, to help determine whether you have asthma.  It would be best to have such a test a while after you infection has cleared.
Best of luck!
Aloha,
Starion