Physical Activity in Child Asthma
Exercise is necessary for all children, and provide moments of happiness while preparing to teach a healthy lifestyle as adults, therefore, the child with asthma should not be an exception, and should make physical exercise a manner “adequate”.
Benefits of exercise in children with asthma:
- Improved child development
- Improved physical fitness and exercise tolerance itself
- The attacks caused by stress are reduced or are less strong
- The crisis is best handled
- Helps reduce the nervousness caused by the attacks.
But keep in mind that at least 80% of children with asthma may have a bronchoconstriction with sports, unless appropriate measures are taken). However, given the benefit of sport psycho and integrator, is a great error overprotect the asthmatic child and prevent a normal level of exercise.
When we begin a physical activity for the first time we all get tired, feel fatigue and breathlessness. In the asthmatic child who has done sports before, these feelings are even stronger. Therefore, the adaptation of the child with asthma sports activity should be very gradual, so that eventually learn to distinguish between normal breathlessness by intense exercise and breathlessness by an asthma attack.
Asthma and Sport
Except for diving with air bottles, a child with asthma can play sports. But there are a number of sports less likely to trigger asthma than others.
The free running, which is the basis of the running, athletics, and sports like football or basketball, is the activity which can produce bronchospasm. As there is usually a refractory period of 2 to 4 hours’ duration in the exercise-induced asthma during which no bronchospasm occurs again, however much they continue to exercise, so running causes an intense and continuous more bronchospasm that perform the exercise intermittently.
Activities that cause exercise-induced asthma
In order of severity are:
1. Free Race
2. Career treadmill
3. Cycling
4. Swimming
In addition, sports like swimming in warm pool (hot and humid air), gymnastics, walking, golf, hiking and biking on level ground are much less likely to trigger asthma. The tennis and ball games, but require much free running, usually take the form of intermittent heavy exertion, so are also good, like the martial arts (judo, karate, taekwondo), fencing, etc..
The deep diving with compressed air cylinders is not an activity recommended by the pressure changes involved, and unable to cope with an asthma attack at a certain depth: In the midst of a crisis of dyspnea, it may be very difficult to carry out maneuvers required for decompression to the surface without risk of barotrauma.
The mountain sports in asthmatics (mountaineering, alpine skiing and background, etc.) only have the problem of breathing cold, dry air, which can be minimized by the use of masks or helmets.
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