Identifying Asthma Triggers

Overview

Journal Otolaryngol Clin North Am

Specialty Otorhinolaryngology

Date 2013 Nov 30

PMID 24286684

Citations 4

Authors

Justin C McCarty

Berrylin J Ferguson

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Abstract

Asthma has many triggers including rhinosinusitis; allergy; irritants; medications (aspirin in aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease); and obesity. Paradoxic vocal fold dysfunction mimics asthma and may be present along with asthma. This article reviews each of these triggers, outlining methods of recognizing the trigger and then its management. In many patients more than one trigger may be present. Full appreciation of the complexity of these relationships and targeted therapy to the trigger is needed to best care for the patient with asthma.

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