Well the answer to this question is a definite “yes”. Most of the symptoms of nocturnal or nighttime asthma develop between 2 am to 6 am. Generally in the nighttime asthma the most common symptom noticed is trouble falling asleep or staying asleep due to cough. Many patients with nighttime asthma report to have tightness in chest when they wake up early in the morning. It is important to get your nighttime asthma under control before they become hazardous.

The most common nighttime asthma symptoms include trouble sleeping due to coughing, wheezing, tightness in the chest. Many patients wake up in the middle of the night due to cough, wheeze, chest pain and chest tightness. Or some patients wake up to early out of the similar problems. Or you may even require rescue inhalers. For some asthmatic patients there is a subsequent decline in lung function and it is all due to increased symptoms like coughing, wheezing, shortening of breath that disrupts sleep.

In nocturnal asthma, your FEV1 decreases by at least 15% from bedtime to getting up in the morning in the asthmatic patients. Patients with nighttime asthma also have equally developed daytime symptom. Lying horizontally may allow some of the stomach contents to come up into the esophagus causing itching and is called reflux. This triggers an asthma episode in the sensitive patients.