Cough, shortness of breath is common in the following reasons: First, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can appear cough, shortness of breath, often accompanied by coughing up sputum, chest tightness, and even accompanied by fever and other symptoms; Second, bronchial asthma, bronchial asthma patients can appear recurrent episodes of shortness of breath, which can be accompanied by coughing up, often with a history of bronchial asthma; Third, pneumonia, patients with pneumonia can appear coughing up sputum, shortness of breath Even accompanied by dyspnea. Fourth, other cardiac insufficiency, pulmonary vascular disease, etc. If the patient often cough, shortness of breath, you should go to the hospital for further filming or chest CT and other tests to find out the cause of the disease, and then targeted treatment.