Question: My 6 yr old boy has started saying he is having a hard time breathing like he feels like he is not getting enough air and we see him gasping and faning himself. He has never had any breathing problems and dosnt have any other sighns of Ashma that we can see. This has been going on for about 2 weeks. Could you give us some ideas of what it could be? We run a cool mist humid. all night on our children and they sleep soundly. Thanks for your help

yes there is other members of our family that do have Asthma(grandmother,uncle,cousins)
We live in the country,clean air
He has no allergies we know of except to certain over the counter meds.(anything that has several meds mixed together give him a reaction)we use all natural things
We have not purchased anything new,we have all hardwood floors not pets in the house.
XXXXXXX is a happy boy the only time I've seem him actually nervouse was when he started kindergarden in Sept. but within a couple days he was fine and likes school alot. the only thing we have noticed is for the first time he is starting to through temper tantrums and he is really bullying his younger sister, he is getting bossy and demanding with us. Thease bad behaveurs have started coming since he started school.
In the last few weeks that we have noticed him taking these XXXXXXX breaths and fanning himself a little there has been no rime or reason for it, it could be first thing when he wakes up or any time of the day, he tells us he can breath better outside, which is cold here in the teens and snow. We mainly use a woodstove for heat so we run a large humidifer all the time and a cool mist one all night on the kids, he seems to sleep well. He dose not snore but once in a while you can barely here that his nose may ne slightly conjested.
No he has never turned blue and he may take a XXXXXXX breath and thats it, its just a noticiable XXXXXXX breath he takes, I do notice when he is drinking a drink he sounds a little out of breath after wards and he takes a XXXXXXX breath, kinda like catch his breath
my father and I have controlled high blood pressure and my grandparents have heart problems, my husbands family has heart problems
He has never fainted or acted winded after playing hard or running around it dosent seem to be affecting him that we see. Some days we might only see him take that XXXXXXX breath once some days we notice it several times a day.