Post Viral Reactive Airway Disease - Has Anyone Had this Diagnosis and recovered?

[edan]

Hi. My daughter had 6 weeks of coughing which never went to her lungs but was definitely in her bronchials near the end of it.

Now at 8 weeks, her FEV1 is still down from 112 to 89 and FEV 25-75 down from 80s to 63.

The doctor has put her on flovent and believes she has post viral reactive airway disease that will resolve.

As you can imagine, I am pretty worried about it and so I wonder... Has this happened to anyone else's child and did they recover?

Thanks so much.

Edan.

 

[Melissa75]

I think this is another way of saying "asthma that is probably temporary." I know of more than a few kids and adults without CF who are prescribed pulmicort or flovent (and albuterol) after infections because they have inflammation/asthma for several weeks post-infection. The idea being to reduce the inflammation and lessen the chance of a new infection jumping into that environment.

Back when I had asthma according to the stethoscope but didn't believe it because I felt fine (I don't have CF), a dr told me that unchecked inflammation would eventually cause me problems and to take my meds. OopsUrgh.

I don't know what is the likelihood is that a child with CF will persist in only having post-viral asthma. I hope some of the CFers with an asthma component can speak to the development of their asthma, if they feel it was confused with their CF or if it developed over time.
In my case, a couple years of chronic infections made me actually feeeeel asthmatic for the first time when I was around 30, whereas drs had told me I had asthma when I was 12.

 

[edan]

Thanks Melissa. I appreciate your feedback. Hoping some other CFers will be able to chime in as well.

Edan.