Why asthma free after lung infection?

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Has anyone experience this? I have asthma. And it seems *after*

every time I get a lung infection (and it clears up), I go

asthma free for a long while.

Around Dec 26 last year, I got such an infection that lasted

about a week. When it cleared up I went asthma-free until just

last week. Wow, no asthma for about 35 days!

And no need to use *any* puffers! I always had to use Flovent

daily otherwise I'd get an attack in just two days. But now,

nothing. The asthma free experience brought back memories of

the good old days when I didn't suffer from shortest of breath

or have to get out the puffers to stop an attack or prevent one!

Alas, last week a co-worker came in with a cold and coughed

around me all day. The next day I caught something similar that

caused a small attack. That cold has now gone but not the asthma

which has returned to it's regular schedule. So now I'm back

using Flovent again.

But I'll never forget what freedom from asthma was like!