Severe asthma

Health advice > Severe asthma 

If you’ve been diagnosed with severe asthma, or are going through a diagnosis, this section is for you:

How is severe asthma diagnosed?

• Why severe asthma can be difficult to diagnose
• The signs of severe asthma
• Staff at a specialist asthma clinic
• Your first appointment at a specialist centre
• Severe asthma tests
• Next steps
• Eosinophilic asthma
• Waiting for a diagnosis

Tests for severe asthma

• At the specialist clinic
• Blood tests
• Sputum induction test
• 24-hour pH monitoring and manometry tests
• Chest X-ray
• CT scan
• ECG
• Bronchoscopy
• Nasendoscopy
• Hyperventilation questionnaire
• Symptom and quality of life scores
• Depression and anxiety scores