How do they test for Asthma?

[hadabadday]

As the title says really, I'm going to the doctor tomorow to tell him of the trouble I have breathing after exercise etc...will he be able to test me for it there and then or is it a faff?

Any chance I could get treatment for it straight away?

Well you may get medication without a diagnosis

& if it works you have asthma

There isn't a test for asthma.

Not a blood test or anything, but don't they do lung function tests, how much you can breath in and how fast you breath out? I thought that was the reason they can't diagnose asthma in babies and small toddlers, because they can't understand what they're being asked to do.

You might be able to get an inhaler straight off hadabadday, if you're really wheezy/crackly. DH has just been given an inhaler for a chest infection rather than asthma (he is a 'lapsed' asthmatic but I don't think that was a factor).

it was/is asthma, got 2 pumps for it today.