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I know there are two types of asthma - allergic and non allergic... When it comes to triggers for non-atopic asthma, drugs and chemials like preservatives are possible triggers.. From personal experience, I get bronchospasms after only a few mouth-fulls of fruit juice preserved with e.g...

Thanks again for all the replies.. It helps so much to put book-knowledge into understandable concepts that I can work with.

On the topic of asthma... I know there are two types - allergic and non allergic... When it comes to triggers for non-atopic asthma, drugs and chemials like preservatives are possible triggers.. Again from personal experience, I get bronchospasms after only a few mouth-fulls of fruit juice...

Thank you so much. That makes sense now, and I also read more about the elastic recoil causing increased resistance with exparation (compared to inspiration), even in normal lungs so it makes more sense now. Thanks again for the reply!

I'm confused. As an asthmatic myself, I remember the feeling of not getting enough air into my lungs during attachs. Now I'm studying the mechanisms and lung functions in asthma, and I repeatedly come across "expiratory obstruction" and "expirational wheeze" and "outflow obstruction"...