Talk:Asthma

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Main Page trophyThis article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on October 5, 2005.
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August 11, 2005Peer reviewReviewed
September 2, 2005Featured article candidatePromoted
July 9, 2008Peer reviewReviewed
December 14, 2008Featured article reviewDemoted
November 9, 2010Peer reviewReviewed
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Current status: Former featured article, current good article

Lancet Seminar[edit]

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)33311-1 JFW | T@lk 20:47, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Aspirin Induced Asthma[edit]

The information under the Aspirin Induced Asthma section is not accurate. It currently states: "Respiratory reactions MAY occur to all COX-1 inhibiting medications including aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen. In addition to asthma, people OFTEN develop nasal polyps..." This is not accurate due to the words MAY and OFTEN. I have tried to edit this several times with cited sources, but my edits are deleted. Here is the problem: reactions to all COX-1 inhibiting NSAIDs and nasal polyps are in fact criteria for diagnosis with AERD. Saying reactions MAY occur is not accurate. Saying nasal polyps OFTEN develop is also not accurate. These are criteria for being diagnosed with the disease. A patient who reacts only to aspirin, for instance, has a drug allergy - not AERD. A patient without nasal polyps also does not have AERD. It is actually possible to have AERD without asthma - but not without nasal polyps and NSAID reactions.

References:

https://www.aaaai.org/conditions-and-treatments/library/asthma-library/aspirin-exacerbated-respiratory-disease

https://www.samterssociety.org/files - there are nearly 100 studies on AERD on this page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8PHXeNuioY - here is a lecture on AERD by the internationally recognized expert, Tanya Laidlaw, MD

User:Andyleigh12 one of the removals was due to the content being copied and pasted from a source. We must paraphrase.
The other ref says "Patients with AERD have evolving sinusitis that starts as mild mucosal inflammation and progresses into a severe persistent disease that often completely fills the sinus cavities with inflammatory tissue and becomes associated with NP"
Thus early on nasal polyps may not be present.
In fact the AAAAI goes on to say "People with AERD usually have asthma, nasal congestion and recurrent nasal polyps". It than says "The characteristic feature of AERD is that patients develop reactions to aspirin and other NSAIDs" Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:01, 4 August 2018 (UTC)