What is the difference between a reactive airway disease and asthma?
My doctor told me that I do not have a reactive airway disease and asthma. What is the difference?
Posted by admin Date: Sunday, November 15, 2009
Categories: Allergy
Tags: airway, Asthma, Between, Difference, Disease, reactive, What
they are the same. I wondered for years also, perhaps in a regional / background taught differerent MD <same.
You are not the same, asthma is a reactive airway disease, reactive airway disease is not always asthma.
Sometimes, the words "reactive airway disease" and "asthma" is used interchangeably. However, they are not necessarily the same.
The term "Reactive airway disease" (a term used to SM Brooks and his colleagues created in 1985) is used to describe the development of asthma-like symptoms of exposure to a single high-irritating fumes, smoke, or smoke.
Reactive airway disease is a general term that can not identify a specific diagnosis. It can be used to describe a history of cough, difficulty breathing or shortness of breath due to unknown reasons. These symptoms may or may not trigger asthma.
The current use of the term the medical community is described as asthma-like symptoms in infants, which can be later confirmed that asthmatics if they participate in are old enough to be of diagnostic tests, such as the bronchial challenge test with a test. It may also be for adults who have high exposure to chlorine, ammonia, acetic acid, sulfur dioxide is used, with symptoms such as asthma. Severity of these symptoms can be mild or lead to death, and may even be long-term damage to the respiratory tract, depending on the exposure and the concentration of chlorine. In addition, when some experts are classified as occupational asthma, reactive airway disease.
More or less the same.