How to Exercise With Asthma

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When you have asthma it's still important that you still exercise daily and stay in shape. A good thing to do is talk to your doctor about asthma medicines. Last thing you want is an asthma attack. Make sure you know how to control your asthma before doing hard or medium exercise.

Steps

1. Make sure you have some sort of asthma inhaler. Always have it near by when you exercise, like in your pocket.
   
2. Take your normal dose 15 minutes before exercising.
   
3. When you exercise and you feel as if you're wheezing, then stop for a minute and take your medicine again.
   
4. If you don't have your medicine with you, then once you start wheezing, stop and sit down for about 20 mins, until your breathing is normal.
   
5. Don't wait too long once you start wheezing or have difficulty breathing, because you could easily get an attack.
   

Tips

• Running is what you should really be careful about because it can have the most effect on breathing
  
• Swimming is one of the best sports you can do with asthma.
  

Warnings

• Never exceed dose! it can be extremely dangerous.
  
• When you have an attack and you have no medicine then get help right away and rest your body and don't move.
  

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