Does this mean your asthma is really bad?!


Question: Does this mean your asthma is really bad.?
If you take a methacholine challenge and your lung function drops almost 50% by the time the test is over, does that mean you have really bad asthma.? Is that a normal drop or a bad drop.?Health Question & Answer


Answers:
The severity of asthma is based on the FEV1 and the frequency of symptoms It is classified

mild interminettend
mild persistent
moderate
severe

Here is the link

http://www.clinmedres.org/cgi/content-nw...

If they had to do a methacholine challenge, it probably is not severe because they had to induce the asthma. Many asthmatics can be diagnosed with a standard pulmonary function test. But I am only guessing, not having seen your resultsHealth Question & Answer



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