Upstairs can not breathe shortness of breath, physiological causes do not need to be treated, lung disease, heart disease caused by the need for different causes of drug treatment. 1. Physiological reasons. There is no symptom in daily activities on the ground, but when you go up the stairs in a hurry or when the floor is high, you can’t catch your breath, and the symptoms of shortness of breath can be relieved after taking a rest. Consider physiological causes, and older, weakened lung function, this situation does not need treatment. 2. Lung disease. Bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma aggravated by activities upstairs, no fever, cough, cough sputum increased, cough yellow pus sputum, usually at home to strengthen oxygen therapy, exercise lung function. If fever, cough yellow pus sputum, need to go to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor’s anti-infective asthma treatment, such as oral theophylline extended-release tablets, salmeterol fluticasone and tiotropium bromide inhalation. 3. Heart disease. Suffer from cardiac insufficiency, activity is more intense or after going up the stairs there will be shortness of breath, you can go to the hospital for electrocardiogram, cardiac ultrasound examination, under the guidance of the doctor to take medication to control the condition, usually can be prescribed to take furosemide, spironolactone to reduce the cardiac load, valsartan to prevent ventricular remodeling. The stairs shortness of breath should go to the hospital, complete the relevant examination, exclude the causes of disease, and under the guidance of the doctor targeted treatment.