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PAGE.... 1...... Living without limits with total asthma control With total asthma control you can enjoy living without limits and You can enjoy most of the sports!
......Exercise is good for body and mind - both physical health and emotional well-being. For How does it occur? ......When a child has asthma, the muscles around the airways tighten and the lining of the airways swells and produces thick mucus. This causes the airways to narrow and makes it harder to breathe. This breathing difficulty is called an asthma attack. ......Asthma is a common disease, affecting approximately 14% of San Diego County’s children, and about 12% of adults in the County, according to the American Lung Association. Asthma can also be serious. More than 2,000 people are admitted to the hospital with asthma symptoms every year in San Diego County. (More information about asthma in our region is found in the San Diego Asthma Report Card at ......Asthma is made worse by a number of factors, with exercise one of the most common asthma triggers. About 80% of asthmatics experience increased symptoms with exercise. In addition, many non-asthmatic patients experience asthma symptoms during or after exercise. Once exercise stops, most people stop suffering asthma symptoms, even without treatment, after 20-60 minutes. ......Exercise-induced asthma tends to occur more often in sports such as track, basketball, tennis and soccer and less often in sports such as swimming, baseball, football and volleyball.
Exercise-induced asthma can be successfully treated with medicine. ......The treatment varies from person to person, based on individual symptoms and triggers. In addition to generally avoiding asthma triggers (such as dust and pet dander), a typical treatment plan involves a combination of long-acting medications: one to control the asthma over time and another consisting of short-acting inhalers for quick relief of symptoms. Many children benefit from using a short-acting bronchodilator such as albuterol about 15 minutes before exercise. Others, by using a long-acting bronchodilator spray that lasts up to 12 hours before school, are able to participate in all the sports and their physical education class. ...... In addition to medications, a warm-up period of activity before exercise may lessen the chest tightness that occurs after exertion. A warm-down period, including stretching and jogging after strenuous activity, helps prevent air in the lungs from changing temperature too rapidly and becoming an asthma trigger. When to call ... CONTINUED ON PAG 2 | This article in PDF format | This page en ESPAÑOL
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many children with asthma, however, physical activities like running or bicycling may cause wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness. These are signs of exercise-induced asthma. Even crying and temper tantrums in very young children can induce these signs and symptoms that range from minor wheezing to severe difficulty breathing.
