Reply #43: very mild, the kind they call reactive airway disease [View All]

[yellowdogintexas]

mine is triggered by other infections; colds, flu, URI's all drop to my chest and really cause havoc. Fortunately, I am also very disease resistant and don't catch colds or flu nearly as often as other folks (such as my husband).

But I don't have to fight it day to day so I don't consider myself a true asthma sufferer. The steroid inhaler is a life saver when I do get sick though!

When the bad allergy season hits me, I often get a reactive bronchial/asthmatic type reaction, as well.

Not allergic to cats however..if I were I couldn't live with them as I think I would be ill all the time.

OH Yeah: if eating ice cream or drinking extremely cold beverages triggers coughing, you have reactive asthma, so says my friend the asthma doctor.