Originally published January 6 2006
Physiologist teaches how to exercise in spite of asthma
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
For the Jamaica Gleaner, Kenneth Gardner writes about the relationship between asthma and exercise, calling upon his expertise as an exercise physiologist to inform readers about how to exercise around their condition.
If they are in good shape and can continue to exercise, their asthma will diminish and often disappear.
However, if they stop they may continue to cough and be short of breath for several minutes to an hour afterwards.
Running is the exercise most likely to cause exercise-induced asthma and swimming is the least likely exercise to cause problems for persons with asthma.
A cooling of the cells that line the tubes which bring air to and from the lungs causes this asthma and breathing dry air is the factor most likely to cause cooling.
When you exercise in a place in which the relative humidity of the air is low, increased amounts of moisture evaporate from the air tubes.
During evaporation, the hotter more active molecules go off into the air and cause a lower temperature by leaving behind the cooler, slower moving ones.
If you find that you have adverse difficulty breathing eight to 12 minutes after you start exercising or that you cough or wheeze after finishing, you may have exercise-induced asthma.
If not, you could set up a warm bath and close the bathroom door so that the air becomes saturated with water.
Your doctor can prescribe medication that can efficiently prevent exercise-induced asthma.
You can also train your body so that when you develop asthma eight to 12 minutes after you start exercising, you are strong enough to continue the exercise and, as mentioned before, continuing the exercise will cause the asthma to subside.
To become strong enough to continue after the attack starts, you can exercise regularly or jog about three miles or more, at a relatively fast pace, at least once each week.
You need to avoid exercising alone, however, and, keep your medication handy during your workout sessions.
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