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I used to think I had asthma but am not sure if I still do. My lungs would get full of mucous every time I excercized and would cough a lot and have problems breathing but the more I excercize the better it gets:)
My asthma is exercise induced, but I’m on daily medication now so I could run a marathon and not get asthma. She may need additional or different medication.
If she does not need medication per a Dr. or even if she does. She may want to do deep breathing exercises. Breathing in with the stomach as deep a possible will get the entire lungs working. Her lungs may be somewhat diminished if she has breathed shallowly for most of her life.
Features that suggest shortness of breath is due to asthma would include a wheeze when breathing out and a cough that produces mucus. Since asthma is, by definition, reversible airways obstruction, her symptoms should improve when she takes her blue inhaler (assuming her ‘reliever’ inhaler is blue). Next time she exercises she should take her blue ‘ventolin/salbutamol’ inhaler 20 minutes before exercise to see if that prevents her symptoms from occuring. Exercise induced asthma is often worse in cold weather, when the person has a cold and at other times, such as when the pollen count is high.
Like eczema and hayfever, many people with purely exercise induced asthma grow out of it.
Maybe she needs to go to her doctor for a review of her asthma status and medication.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Elizabeth Reilly
I used to think I had asthma but am not sure if I still do. My lungs would get full of mucous every time I excercized and would cough a lot and have problems breathing but the more I excercize the better it gets:)
August 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Juan Rutter
My asthma is exercise induced, but I’m on daily medication now so I could run a marathon and not get asthma. She may need additional or different medication.
August 24th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Eunice Neilson
If she does not need medication per a Dr. or even if she does. She may want to do deep breathing exercises. Breathing in with the stomach as deep a possible will get the entire lungs working. Her lungs may be somewhat diminished if she has breathed shallowly for most of her life.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Dianne Falgoust
Features that suggest shortness of breath is due to asthma would include a wheeze when breathing out and a cough that produces mucus. Since asthma is, by definition, reversible airways obstruction, her symptoms should improve when she takes her blue inhaler (assuming her ‘reliever’ inhaler is blue). Next time she exercises she should take her blue ‘ventolin/salbutamol’ inhaler 20 minutes before exercise to see if that prevents her symptoms from occuring. Exercise induced asthma is often worse in cold weather, when the person has a cold and at other times, such as when the pollen count is high.
Like eczema and hayfever, many people with purely exercise induced asthma grow out of it.
Maybe she needs to go to her doctor for a review of her asthma status and medication.