Asthma relieved by aspirin and by other cyclo-oxygenase inhibitors

Abstract

Some patients with bronchial asthma report that aspirin decreases their shortness of breath. The authors describe an asthmatic patient in whom airways obstruction could be reversed effectively by aspirin and by several other cyclo-oxygenase inhibitors, that is, analgesics that suppress the generation of prostaglandins (PG), thromboxane A2 (TXA2), and prostacyclin (PGI2) in the tissues.