TY - JOUR T1 - Paracetamol and asthma JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 585 LP - 585 DO - 10.1136/thx.56.7.585-c VL - 56 IS - 7 AU - G KARAKAYA AU - A U DEMIR AU - A F KALYONCU Y1 - 2001/07/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/56/7/585.4.abstract N2 - We were interested to read the article by Shaheenet al on the relationship between paracetamol and asthma.1 We have been interested in patients with analgesic induced asthma (AIA) since 1991 and now have a total of about 238 patients who have been followed up in our allergy unit. We have previously reported some related allergic conditions and risk factors for AIA, one of which was cumulative life long analgesic consumption.2-4 After reading the paper by Shaheenet al we re-analysed our data and compared the … ER -