This is actually ON topic, despite the subject title.
When I go for a 30 minute run, I rarely have any need to use my asthma inhaler for about 2 days thereafter. If I go for a bike ride of similar, or even longer, duration, I do not seem to get the same benefit. Case in point: today. Yesterday I had two rides of about 45 minutes each. The first was quite hard, fighting a 30KMH headwind most of the way. I've just had to use my inhaler.
Does anyone out there get respite from their inhaler by cycling? If so, what do you do to obtain that respite?
This is actually ON topic, despite the subject title.
When I go for a 30 minute run, I rarely have any need to use my asthma inhaler for about 2 days thereafter. If I go for a bike ride of similar, or even longer, duration, I do not seem to get the same benefit. Case in point: today. Yesterday I had two rides of about 45 minutes each. The first was quite hard, fighting a 30KMH headwind most of the way. I've just had to use my inhaler.
Does anyone out there get respite from their inhaler by cycling? If so, what do you do to obtain that respite?
TIA
Jeff
I don't know about cycling, but my daughter has asthma and it gets better when she goes to the gym for regular workouts. When she slacks off her asthma gets worse. I am guessing that the exercise helps and may take your mind off of the asthma if you are enjoying the exercise. ?????? Bill Baka
This is actually ON topic, despite the subject title.
When I go for a 30 minute run, I rarely have any need to use my asthma inhaler for about 2 days thereafter. If I go for a bike ride of similar, or even longer, duration, I do not seem to get the same benefit. Case in point: today. Yesterday I had two rides of about 45 minutes each. The first was quite hard, fighting a 30KMH headwind most of the way. I've just had to use my inhaler.
Does anyone out there get respite from their inhaler by cycling? If so, what do you do to obtain that respite?
TIA
Jeff
I`ve been biking with asthma all my life. Although, I am a seasonal cylcist because the cooler air aggravates my asthma. I find that every season, the first few rides requires the use of my backup inhaler (sometimes I take it before I leave), but after that my lungs strengthen enough to go without. I think the windchill factor and the humidity of the air you breathe has an effect.
This is actually ON topic, despite the subject title.
When I go for a 30 minute run, I rarely have any need to use my asthma inhaler for about 2 days thereafter. If I go for a bike ride of similar, or even longer, duration, I do not seem to get the same benefit. Case in point: today. Yesterday I had two rides of about 45 minutes each. The first was quite hard, fighting a 30KMH headwind most of the way. I've just had to use my inhaler.
Does anyone out there get respite from their inhaler by cycling? If so, what do you do to obtain that respite?
TIA
Jeff
I`ve been biking with asthma all my life. Although, I am a seasonal cylcist because the cooler air aggravates my asthma. I find that every season, the first few rides requires the use of my backup inhaler (sometimes I take it before I leave), but after that my lungs strengthen enough to go without. I think the windchill factor and the humidity of the air you breathe has an effect.
I know this is a non bike specific topic, but I can add that the weather and the humidity, or lack of it, does have a definite effect. I grew up in/around Chicago and had bronchitis every winter from the lack of humidity inside a heated house. When I was 14 we moved to California and I never had it again. Going from a house at 70 degrees F and near 0% humidity to the outside at maybe 15 degrees and still 0% humidity (water frozen out), then exercising is a stretch on the lungs. Bill
I am guessing that the exercise helps and may take your mind off of the asthma if you are enjoying the exercise.
no, it's the increase in epinephrin (adrenalin) when you reach your vOmax after exercising for a while. the standard emergency treatment for asthma attacks used to be intravenous ephinephrine because it opens the airways and stimulates the heart (a lot!), then they switched to ACTH, which stimulates the adrenal glands to produce adrenalin, supposedly easier on the heart.
i rarely have asthma attacks now, sinus allergies are my plague after adolescence.
I am guessing that the exercise helps and may take your mind off of the asthma if you are enjoying the exercise.
no, it's the increase in epinephrin (adrenalin) when you reach your vOmax after exercising for a while. the standard emergency treatment for asthma attacks used to be intravenous ephinephrine because it opens the airways and stimulates the heart (a lot!), then they switched to ACTH, which stimulates the adrenal glands to produce adrenalin, supposedly easier on the heart.
i rarely have asthma attacks now, sinus allergies are my plague after adolescence.
I didn't know about the epinephrine (adrenalin). Allergies here too, a pain on a long ride, but not a real health hazard. Bill
