<s>[INST] Do infections cause asthma? [/INST] You may remember that your asthma seemed to start in connection with a viral infection probably when you were a child. However, the infection probably did not cause the asthma; more likely, it only triggered the symptoms. The condition was already there and would have developed sooner or later, with or without the infection. You were probably born with a tendency to develop asthma.Some children are allergic and have a mild form of asthma (inflammation of the airways) without being aware of it. Then they get a viral infection and the obvious asthma symptoms appear. Source: Ginasthma. Link: https://ginasthma.org/about-us/faqs/. Field: Lung Disease. Disease: Asthma </s>