Having said this and introduced you to some of the strong sentiments against the use of this imprecise term, I will at least try and share with you some of the context in which this terminology is still employed. As such, we view these terms as unhelpful and potentially harmful, and we recommend that they not be used."
The problem is that “reactive airways” and “reactive airways disease” are highly nonspecific terms that have no clinical meaning. They are in particular commonly used in the pediatric setting. The terms are widely used in case presentations involving outpatients and inpatients, and even patients in intensive care units. They are being used as synonyms for asthma.
"The terms “reactive airways” and “reactive airways disease” have crept into the clinical lexicon in recent years. The lead sentence in the title is "Reactive Airways Disease, a lazy term of uncertain meaning that should be abandoned." The first paragraph of this paper states: Perhaps one way to approach the meaning of "reactive airways disease" is to refer to an article by two leading pulmonologists, Dr. Before attempting to define the term, however, since you mentioned it in the same context as asthma, it should be stated that the two terms are not synonymous.Īsthma can be considered a reactive airways disease, but the term "reactive airways disease" refers to many other conditions which have only been loosely defined. Unfortunately, I cannot give you a precise definition of reactive airways because such does not exist.
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