Asthma & Severe Asthma Care in Jaipur
If you or a family member has wheezing, night cough, chest tightness, or breathlessness that keeps returning despite inhalers, this page is for you. Dr Shubham Sharma — Transplant & Interventional Pulmonologist with training in advanced lung failure and sleep medicine — evaluates asthma and severe asthma at Rama Speciality Clinics (Pratap Nagar / Sanganer) and as a consultant at Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Jaipur. Patients receive a structured assessment of symptoms, triggers, inhaler technique, and lung function, with a clear plan for day-to-day control and when to escalate care.
What is asthma?
Asthma is a long-term (chronic) condition in which the airways become inflamed and narrow, making it harder to breathe. Symptoms can come and go. Some people have mild intermittent symptoms; others have severe asthma that stays poorly controlled despite regular treatment, or that needs higher levels of specialist care.
• In severe or poorly controlled asthma: repeated flare-ups (exacerbations), emergency visits, or limits on daily activity
When to see a pulmonologist
Consider a specialist opinion if:
• Symptoms persist despite using prescribed inhalers correctly
• You need your reliever inhaler more than a few times a week
• Night symptoms or early-morning symptoms are frequent
• You have had recent emergency visits, steroid courses, or hospital admissions for breathing
• Diagnosis is unclear (asthma vs COPD, allergy, vocal cord issues, or other causes)
• You have been told you may have “severe,” “difficult,” or “refractory” asthma
• You also snore heavily, stop breathing in sleep, or have daytime sleepiness (overlap with sleep-related breathing problems)
• Breathlessness is getting worse over months, or oxygen levels are a concern
Seek urgent / emergency care for severe breathlessness, inability to speak full sentences, blue lips, confusion, or if your rescue inhaler is not helping — do not wait for a routine clinic slot.
Common symptoms
• Wheezing (a whistling sound when breathing)
• Shortness of breath or feeling of “air hunger”
• Chest tightness
• Cough — often worse at night or early morning
• Symptoms triggered by dust, smoke, cold air, exercise, infections, or allergens
• Frequent need for a reliever (rescue) inhaler
• Disturbed sleep due to cough or breathlessness