When a child cries and can’t get up for air, it may be a normal body reaction, or there may be problems such as pneumonia and breath-holding syndrome. 1. Normal body reaction, may be too emotional in the process of crying, the body lack of oxygen, so this symptom will occur. 2. Pneumonia, if pneumonia is already present, the inflammation of the lungs is aggravated and the inflammatory secretions are oozing out, which may affect the normal functioning of the lungs, thus leading to the emergence of such symptoms. 3. Breath-holding syndrome, children may cry during the process of breath-holding syndrome, breath-holding syndrome is a strong emotional outpouring of disease, strong crying may produce breathing stops, gasping for air symptoms. Children who cry and can not breathe, there may be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.