17th February 2025

A 25 year old woman presents to her GP with intermittent shortness of breath, nocturnal cough and wheeze.

A 25 year old woman presents to her GP with intermittent shortness of breath, nocturnal cough and wheeze. She has a background of eczema, but no other past medical history. Her GP gives her a salbutamol inhaler and a trial of inhaled corticosteroids. She doesn’t notice much improvement after six weeks of this, so her GP arranges spirometry with reversibility testing. Which results would be most consistent with a diagnosis of asthma?