We can offer one piece of advice to patients. Patients should try to take their medications as prescribed and to communicate fully with their physicians when they are not able to do so. This is extremely important so that these drugs can be administered properly. Most of the clinical trials have been done with patients taking the drugs in the morning. Often, people select the most convenient time and that usually is in the morning.
Bronchial asthma is another term for asthma.
This obstruction is reversible. That means that the airways are blocked sometimes but generally not all of the time. This reversibility is the hallmark of asthma, along with inflammation of the airways. To make the diagnosis, we typically look at spirometry, which is a measure of the ability to exhale air. We look for people to be able to reverse their obstruction by about 15 percent.