Brilliant listen on #asthma, #breathingpatterndisorders & #EILO in running from @DrJohnDickinson & @tinamuir
Key messages (see thread)
🏃🏽♂️Athletes have ⬆️ airway irritation due to mechanical shift to mouth breathing during exercise ⬇️ air humidification & filtration.... (cont)
🦠 Plus, they’re often exposed to environments which are more irritable to the airway, e.g running in cold weather, dry air, pollution, pollen etc
🔄 Airways can react by constricting, making it difficult to breath out, resulting in symptoms such as breathless, wheeze or cough
🗣 Asthma should not be diagnosed purely on subjective symptoms. An objective test e.g. spirometry needs to be completed
💊If well controlled, asthma symptoms should be well managed. Taking your preventive inhaler is essential for this (Inhaled corticosteroid)
💊Reliever inhalers (Salbutamol) should only be used to relieve acute symptoms, but is doesn’t treat the airway inflammation
💊Reviews on medication & symptoms should be done with asthma nurses/consultants
🗣Breathless & respiratory symptoms are not always asthma but they can present similar
❌ #EILO & mechanical issues with breathing tend to get better once exercise stops (asthma often gets worse after)
🦵🏼Breathing pattern disorders can often have other symptoms such as leg burning, cramping & tingling
🔄 #EILO (Exercise Induced Laryngeal Obstruction) often has a distinctive inspiratory wheeze (noisy on breath in) see @Breathe_to_win for more on #EILO!
👌🏼Both respond really well to breathing retraining which can be done by a respiratory physiotherapist (me! 🙋🏼♀️) or speech and language therapist - see @physio4bpd
📈@DrJohnDickinson and @Breathe_to_win are the main guys to look into anything breathing related in athletes - see @chhplondon 🤙🏼
👏🏻👏🏻 Big thanks to @DrJohnDickinson & @tinamuir for a great podcast on an important topic!
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