itchy feeling and cough???

[bgpolo1]

hi, i am a 16 yr old female and i swim for half the year and play water polo for half the year so im it relativly good shape...my asthma usually flairs up around once every two weeks during practice but its usually only bad once a year. i take albuturol (i cant sp it) and it usually goes away...

well lately i have been waking up with a mild cough and almost like an itchy feeling inside my chest (it feels like its on my lungs) about once a month. it doesnt go away unless i take a couple puffs of my inhaler...but when i do it will go away in about 10 minutes...

so i was wondering if anybody gets this or knows why i would wake up with my asthma bothering me(yes it has woken me up but it didnt before this started)

thanks
jess

[sb786]

Wow, can't believe there are others that get the itchy lung sensation! How would you guys describe it?

for me i get a deep itchyy feeling in my upper back and sometimes at the front. first it feels like its on the skin but when i try to scratch its deep inside somewhere! for me it usually happens when i have a cold or flu and when i sneeze loads or cough loads.

[joanncrtt]

ADVAIR IS NOT IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE! ATROVENT IS IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE and is used in conjunction with Albuterol as a fast acting bronchial dilator. The combined doses are known as duoneb.
ADVAIR is the maintenance drug Fluticasone Propionate and Salmeterol which comes in 3 different doses of 150/50, 250/50 and 500/50. This medication is a powder inhaler and is used twice a day as a long term medication to reduce inflammation of the lungs.

[ItchyLungs]

I too experience this itching sensation in conjunction with getting a cold. If i wake up and feel it, I know that as the day progresses other cold symptoms will follow. What is the cause for this itchy feeling? I do not have asthma or any other ailments.

[bleh453]

Listen the itchy feeling you are experiencing is most likley a form of accute bronchitis.

What is happening is something is irritating your bronchial tubes, this is most commonly seen in smoker's as they are always inhaling toxins, which eventually will affect your lungs and the tubes connecting to your lungs.

Other things such as dust, mold, etc almost anything that can be inhaled and your lungs dont like it, it will become irritated and itch, sometimes causing a cough.

In MOST cases if you take a really deep breathe and you feel a itching or burning sensation above ur lungs or near ur lungs connecting to your throat, chances are its a form of bronchitis.

There are many forms of bronchitis depending on how sevre the problem is.

If it dosen't go away. Go see a doctor.

[cobader]

Wow!  Itchy lungs...I have them and have had them since I was diagnosed with pneumonia last Tuesday!  It's now been 10 days since it all started!  My clue that I need to use my inhaler is that my upper back itches.  I've talked to a nurse about this and she said that it made sense because the lungs are back there, they are irritated and I'm just aware of it!  It goes away once I've used my inhaler...but this time with the pneumonia....this is a whole other thing entirely...I woke up last Monday with a very strange feeling in my lungs...4 years ago I had empyma and ended up with lung surgery on my left lungh...it was awful...and by the way, I was diagnosed with asthma when I was one.  Anyway, this feeling in my lungs was different than the one in my back...I immediately used my inhaler to see if that would help, but it didn't...then when I tell the respitory therapist at the hospital that my lungs were itchy...she thought I was nuts.  Of course telling me she had never heard of that before.  Then yesterday at work...I couldn't tolerate the feeling anymore.  It feels like I'd like to remove my lungs from my chest and use my nails to scratch them...I know it's my lungs because after having the lung surgery I can feel my left lung at all times.  It's a very strange sensation.

So, today I went to the dr for a follow up and we decided to put me on a steroid inhaler at night for 2 weeks to see if that will help with the itchiness.  I can't stand it and it's driving me absolutely nuts!!!  I'm so glad to know there are others that have Itchy lungs....by the way, I don't smoke, I do have 2 cats, but they don't make me sneeze and I bathe them all the time :)

[Jess1307]

I also have the Itchy feeling in my chest, Ive never been diagnosed with asthma, or anything simaller.

I do how ever smoke ciggies/weed, And have a cat that lives in the house.

I seem to KEEP getting sick at the moment, Maybe my immune system is down, due to me losing weight(21kilos alone in the past 3 months) and not eating alot???

I seem to get "better" for a bit, then I will get a sore throat or a cough and it all comes rushing back!

Im sure my best bet is go to the doctors,(wich I will next week) Its just driving me crazy.

Im thinking that I really should be giving up smoking all together (both)