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Exercise Induced Asthma - What It Is And What You Can Do About It

Exercise induced asthma, often referred to as sports induced asthma, is one of the very common types of asthma. The signs and symptoms for this type of asthma are similar to the symptoms for most other types of asthma. The difference is in what causes these symptoms to appear..

What is Asthma?

So what is asthma? Glad you asked. Having asthma means that your airways (how air travels back and forth to your lungs) are very sensitive. Being sensitive means that they will get extremely irritated if you come in contact with or do certain things. Unfortunately, you won't know what those certain things are until after your airways get upset with you.

Asthma Signs and Symptoms

If you have exercise induced asthma, or any type of asthma really, and your airways get irritated, the results will be what we call asthma symptoms as listed below:
  • Coughing
  • Wheezing - kind of a whistling sound usually when breathing out.
  • Shortness of breath - you just can't seem to catch your breath.
  • Pain, pressure or tightness in your chest.
See the asthma signs and symptoms page for more details and a list of other symptoms that might show up.

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Asthma Triggers

We mentioned that having asthma means that your airways are sensitive to certain things. We give a fancy name to those things and call them asthma triggers. There is a long list of things that can irritate your airways if you have exercise induced asthma. The full list is on the asthma triggers page, but here is a partial list:
  • Certain foods - could be any food or even food additives
  • Air pollution
  • Aerosol sprays
  • Animal dander
  • Cockroach droppings
  • Dust mites
  • Grass, pollen, etc
  • Mold
  • Smoke
  • Certain types of weather or weather changes
  • etc. etc.

So Which Asthma Trigger Is Your Arch Enemy If You Have Exercise Induced Asthma?

During any kind of aerobic exercise, you tend to breathe through your mouth instead of your nose. When you breathe through your nose, the air is warmed up and humidified before going to your lungs. When you breathe through your mouth, it is warmed up and humidified a lot less. It is believed that when outside air goes directly to your airways and lungs without being warmed up, that your airways get real upset and irritated.

Asthma Signs and Symptoms

Your airways are used to the warmer, moist air and when they don't get it, they pretty much throw a temper tantrum. And you know what happens when your airways get upset.
  • Coughing - a typical asthma cough is when you cough up gunk or phlegm.
  • Pain, pressure or tightness in your chest.
Your symptoms might show up shortly after starting your exercise. For others they might not show up until later. They might go away when you stop breathing through your mouth or they could last for quite awhile after you stop exercising. Everybody seems to be a little different.

Certain exercises or sports are worse than others. If you have exercise induced asthma, then any activity that causes you to breathe through your mouth for any length of time is likely to cause your asthma symptoms to flare up. Exercising in colder weather is obviously much worse for you.

Swimming is less likely to affect you because the humidity is higher near water, although there is no guarantee of that. Age doesn't seem to have any bearing on who has exercise induced asthma, although children are more likely to be affected simply because they are more active. It is possible that you could have it and not even know it because you don't exercise that heavily very often. Winter athletes are usually the most affected.

So What Kind Of Asthma Treatment Options Are Available For Exercise Induced Asthma?

Prescription Asthma Medications - the more often you exercise the more medications you will probably need to take. Another factor is whether or not you also have other types of asthma along with your sports induced asthma. If you have no other types of asthma, you might just take your medications before exercising.

The thing about prescription asthma medications is that they don't attempt to cure your exercise induced asthma. As a result, you will probably have to take them for the rest of your life. With all of the concerns about the possibly dangerous side effects from these medications, many people are starting to look at alternative medications.

Natural Asthma Treatments - the great thing about natural asthma treatments and remedies is that they can cure your exercise induced asthma. They don't just cover up your symptoms, but will heal and strengthen your body's own immune system. When this happens, your airways no longer react the same way to your asthma triggers like they used to.

Many people are able to either drastically reduce their asthma medications or be able to stop using them completely in a very short time. We have put together a lot of information on natural asthma remedies and treatments on this website. We urge you to at least consider them when deciding on what treatments you will pursue in the future. Don't forget to take a look at the asthma drug side effects page. It might help you make up your mind.

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Now you know what causes asthma or more specifically, what causes your asthma symptoms. I highly recommend that you look over the different natural asthma remedies discussed throughout this website and get started on one right away. Your relief could be only days away.

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Types of Asthma

Bronchial Asthma

Pediatric Asthma

Exercise Induced Asthma

Cough Variant Asthma

Allergy Induced Asthma

Asthma in Children

Acute Asthma

Adult Onset Asthma

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