Asthma symptoms include, but are not limited to, coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath.

Coughing related to asthma often interferes with sleep and is worse at night or early in the morning.

Shortness of breath may present itself as the inability to catch one’s breath or out of breath (quick inhaling and exhaling).

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Asthma/Asthma_SignsAndSymptoms.html