Exercising regularly has a wide range of beneficial health effects; in particular, it has been well documented to help in the management of chronic illnesses including asthma. However, in some individuals, exertion can also trigger an exacerbation of asthmatic episodes and subsequent acute attacks of breathlessness, coughing, tightness of the chest and wheezing. This physiological process is ca...

   Cromolyn sodium, a mast cell stabilizing agent, provides an immediate protective effect against the exercise-induced bronchoconstriction while being used before the exercise. However, cromolyn is ineffective in reversing asthmatic bronchospasm; it is used as a maintenance therapy and has a prophylactic role in chronic asthma.    The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of change...

NHLBI guidelines recommend regular physical activity (PA) for patients with asthma. Healthcare provider (HCP) counseling represents an effective approach to optimizing patient activity. However, current exercise rates among asthma are sub-optimal, suggesting that may be improved. We aimed understand PA behaviors HCPs involved in management. A voluntary 15-item survey assessing providers’ self-r...

TYPE: Abstract TOPIC: Pulmonary Rehabilitation PURPOSE: To determine the changes produced in variables under study Colombian patients with asthma who attended a PR program. METHODS: Cross-sectional study, 38 were admitted completed comprehensive 8-week program based on ATS / ERS guidelines. Peak respiratory pressures, exercise tolerance, and quality of life evaluated. A paired T test was used v...

Mothers of children with bronchial asthma consecutively admitted to Aseer central hospital, Saudi Arabia (n = 171), were interviewed using a questionnaire based on the Chicago Community Asthma Survey to study their knowledge and behaviours concerning bronchial asthma. The least known information among mothers was the complications of bronchial asthma. Breathing exercises during asthma attacks w...

An episode of exercise induced asthma will usually be followed by a period during which further exercise will not induce asthma. Postulated mechanisms include persistence of catecholamines released during exercise, development of tolerance to released mediators, and mediator depletion. To investigate the underlying mechanism further eight asthmatic men underwent three experimental protocols as ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction among elite long-distance runners in Brazil and whether there is a difference in the training loads among athletes with and without exercise-induced bronchoconstriction. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study involving elite long-distance runners with neither current asthma symptoms nor a diagnosis of exercise-ind...

asthma is one of the most common problems of childhood, responsible for a significant proportion of abstinence from school because of chronic illness. this study was carried out among the school-aged children (7-18 years) in tehran schools during 2002-2003, in order to determine the frequency of asthma. according to the recommendation of who (world health organization), we designed a questionna...

the aim of the present study was to examine the effects of a course of aerobic exercise on pulmonary function and tolerance of activity in asthmatic patients. among the asthmatic patients, 36 patients (m= 16, f= 20) were chosen after clinical examinations, pulmonary function test, skin prick test (spt) for aeroallergen and a six minute walk test (6mwt) on their own free will. a patient was said...