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Asthma patients exercise properly to help improve health, support better disease treatment. However, for people with asthma, exercise needs to know and note a few things to avoid the dangers of over-exercising.
1. The role of exercise for people with asthma
Exercise is good for everyone, including asthmatics. Regular, correct and appropriate exercise helps our lifestyle to be healthy, repels many diseases, and supports the treatment of diseases very well. As for asthma patients, as long as you are well controlled, exercise right with your ability, physical condition and health. Exercise helps strengthen muscles, strengthen the immune system, keep a stable, healthy body weight.
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2. Prevention of exercise-induced asthma attacks
When an asthma attack occurs during exercise, care should be taken to keep the patient active, or become more active by the following steps:
Identify exercise-induced asthma triggers :
If the asthma trigger is cold air, the patient should wear a scarf, wear a mask against cold nose and mouth, warm the air, try to breathe through the nose when exercising. Check the amount of mold, pollen... allergens that trigger asthma attacks. Avoid outdoor activities in the afternoon because this is when the level of air pollution that causes asthma is highest. Using Asthma Medications Certain medications can be given to asthmatics before exercise to prevent symptoms that may occur during exercise. Bronchodilators and anti-inflammatory drugs can also be used under the direction of the treating doctor. Patients always have a breathing tube in their body when exercising so they can use it promptly when having an asthma attack. Warm up before exercise and finish cool down:
The rule for people with asthma when exercising is to warm up 5-10 minutes before exercising. This can help you best prevent asthma symptoms when you exercise. With the pre-exercise warm-up step, the patient can walk slowly and gradually increase the speed or can start by bringing the hands above the head to touch and then drop to the hips several times and then add a jumping movement. many times. Cooling down 5-10 minutes after exercise is also effective in preventing possible asthma symptoms. Cooling activities can be walking or stretching as appropriate.
3. What to do when an asthma attack occurs during exercise?
Even if you have taken steps to prevent asthma while exercising, symptoms can still occur. People with asthma should reduce activity gradually. When symptoms continue to get worse, the person needs to use an asthma reliever such as salbutamol. Symptoms will gradually subside and you can completely cut off your asthma attack and stop exercising. When the asthma condition does not decrease, the asthmatic patient should be promptly taken to the nearest medical facility for proper treatment.
4. The method of exercise is suitable for people with asthma
Having asthma does not mean not exercising. Patients need to maintain a suitable level of exercise that will help a lot for health and disease treatment. As mentioned above, people with asthma need to warm up and cool down before and after exercise. The average warm-up time is from 5 to 10 minutes by walking, gentle movements.
Changing, practicing appropriate exercise is the right thing for people with asthma. Gentle exercise, yoga, walking, running short distances are ideal choices for people with asthma. Team sports such as football, basketball, and volleyball are also often suitable for asthmatics.
Some sports have a short exertion period of about 10 seconds with a longer rest period of about 30 seconds in succession, such as tennis, badminton, table tennis, etc., rarely bring patients to exercise asthma. Meanwhile, asthmatics need to pay attention to sports such as long-distance running, cycling, aerobics that cause exertion. Be very careful with these subjects.
Swimming in warm weather is very suitable for asthma patients. However, if it's cold, the pool is too much chlorinated, which is not good for asthma patients.
The most dangerous sport for people with asthma is scuba diving. Patients must carefully consider when playing is suitable for their health status or not.
People with asthma should also not exercise in polluted, dusty, pollen, grass... cold and dry air. These are the factors that cause asthma symptoms to develop during exercise.
Asthma, if not diagnosed and controlled strictly, will cause many serious consequences such as acute and malignant dyspnea, even death. Currently, Vinmec International General Hospital has Vinmec's asthma screening package to help customers:
Screening for early detection to promptly control and treat the disease Perform clinical examination, ask medical history , measure respiratory function, otolaryngology examination and screening for bronchial asthma.
If you have unusual symptoms, you should be examined and consulted with a specialist.
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