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Excess Exercise
Learn About How Excess Exercise Could Worsen Your Asthma!
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Excess exercise
is one of asthma triggers that many people often confused with. In a
way, exercise or sport is good for human's health, however on the
other side, if you are an asthma patient, exercise could become one
of asthma trigger if you overdo it.
Having exercise is still
good for every human being. It increases our self-confidence,
physical and psychological health. Even for an asthma patient, if
you can manage your |
asthma well, you can do any
physical sports without any difficulties. However, you should always pay
attention to your asthma condition.
The Relation Between
Excess Exercise and Bronchospasm
Bronchospasm is a temporary
spasm on the bronchial caused by airway narrower. For many years
scientists have been discussing how exercise can trigger bronchospasm,
and finally came to conclusion that exercise increases the need of
oxygen. This condition will increase patient's breathing level, which at
the end will cool and dry his airway, and trigger asthma attack.
Bronchospasm that is caused by excess exercise called
EIB (Exercise-Induced
Bronchospasm).
EIB also attacks people who is not asthma patient, but have a
hypersensitive airway.
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EIB Symptoms
On asthma-extrinsic patient
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The EIB symptoms appear quite
significantly, such as short breath or breathless.
On asthma-intrinsic patient
:
The symptoms don't appear
significantly, such as cold, cough, breathless, tiredness, lack of
energy, and sickness.
EIB Attack
EIB attack could appear in
3 levels: |
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Early Level
This is the worst level. The
EIB attack could start during exercise, 15 minutes after you start. In
other cases it could begin 6-8 minutes after a heavy exercise, get worse
for about 5-10 minutes, but then stopped after 30-60 minutes. |
Refractory Level
50% of asthma patients never
have bronchospasm in 30-90 minutes after early EIB attack there. That's
why a lot of athletes with asthma keep continuing their exercise during
the refractory attack, as the symptoms will get disappeared after they
finish the exercise.
End Level
End level is the lightest
level.
On certain cases, this level
never even appear.
If it does appears, the attack
will start 12-16 hours after the exercise, and will disappear in 24
hours.
How To Reduce EIB ?
1. Don't have any kind of
sport or exercise when having an asthma symptoms!
2. Consume medicines to
prevent EIB before having exercise.
Just make sure not to consume prohibited medicine that contain caffeine.
Bronchodilator is quite safe.
3. Have enough warm up
You can choose from
stretching,
walking
or short running on the treadmill for approx. 30 seconds. Take a
break for another 60 seconds, then repeat the exercise for 2-3 times.
Remember, warming up period for asthma patient is a little longer than
for normal people.
4. Choose a suitable exercise
Non-aerobic exercise such as walking, biking or
weight
lifting could be your choices. Start form low level, and increase
gradually depend on your stamina. Swimming is the best choice for asthma
patient, indoor pool is better. Other sports you can choose are tennis,
baseball, volley or golf.
5. Avoid asthma trigger
Avoid having contact with any asthma
trigger before and during your exercise.
6. Enough Cooling Down
Don't stop your exercise immediately, to avoid immediate climate change
on your airway. Have at least 10 minutes cooling down after finishing
your exercise.
7. Avoid certain food before
exercise
Do not consume these foods several hours before having exercise : prawn,
celery, nuts, white egg, almond and banana.
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