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Exercise Induced Asthma: Especially a Problem for Young People
By M. A. Fulmar

Exercise induced asthma is attributable to when a person runs or takes other forms of exercise. It is only now that doctors have realized that it is not separate from asthma, though it is quite usual for people with asthma to be so afflicted. Exercise induced asthma is particularly a problem in the case of young people, and it has puzzled doctors for quite some time why children suffer exercise induced asthma and why that was not the case with adults. After much research it was found that the reason behind this anomaly was that adults did not exercise quite as much as young people. A possible cause for exercise induced asthma could be the increased rate of breathing that is consequent to a person exercising.

The Air Passage is Irritable in Asthma

A person suffering from asthma finds that their air passages are irritable. This would cause what would not be harmful for normal people to trigger an attack of asthma in the asthmatic. One can get exercise induced asthma from different kinds of exercises, but to prevent such attacks the asthmatic should consume the same amount of oxygen in each exercise so that there is less chance of wheezing or chest tightness. The case of running outdoors is considerably worse than swimming because swimming is one of the best types of exercise for asthmatics because there is less of chest tightness involved. Also, running indoors on a treadmill or cycling on an indoor exercise bike are less extreme cases and fit somewhere between running and swimming.

Exercise induced asthma may also affect a person who swims in a swimming pool that is rich in chlorine fumes, and so one should avoid swimming in chlorinated pools if one is an asthmatic. Another factor that needs to be taken into account when preventing exercise induced asthma is to time the exercise. One may be surprised to know that an exercise induced asthma attack can occur within six minutes of exercising; so exercise for fewer than six minutes. However, after a few hours of being struck with an exercise induced asthma attack, repetition of the same amount of exercise would not necessarily produce the same asthmatic symptoms, or there may not be any attacks at all. This means that one can run through the exercise induced asthma by warming up with short spurts of exercise or by continuous exercising which does not cause a severe attack.

Author Details:
M. A. Fulmar, copywriter for various websites including the Asthma section of www.naturalcrystaldeodorant.com

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