6 Techniques to Help with Your Asthma (1)

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6 Techniques to Help with Your Asthma
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Furthermore, it is believed that asthmatics face
another breathing difficulty breathing through
their mouths. This results in a direct hit of
cool and dry air straight into the lung. This is
a direct asthma trigger. When this type of air
gets into your lungs, it can result in the need
for a reliever inhaler as a matter of urgency,
alongside other necessary asthma
medication. When your asthma is causing you
significant breathing difficulties and shortness
of breath and chest tightness seem to be ever
more prevalent, it can be particularly worrying.
For you as the patient, but also for your loved
ones watching and feeling helpless. But there are
things you can do to help take back control.
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• Read on to discover some simple breathing
  exercises that could control your breathing
  issues and help to ward off future asthma
  attacks.
• Breathing exercises you can do
• When it comes to the management of your asthma, a
  2014 article published in The European
  Respiratory Society (ERS) journal stated that
• Breathing exercises can improve patient-reported
  outcomes and psychological state and
• Breathing exercises should be offered to all
  asthma patients with symptoms or impaired quality
  of life despite standard treatment
• This recent study highlights the positive impact
  that breathing exercises might have in relation
  to your asthma management, and in turn, improve
  your overall quality of life.

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• The article also highlighted that
• Over-breathing (hyperventilation) and abnormal
  breathing patterns (dysfunctional breathing) are
  commonly associated with anxiety and
  breathing-control exercises have long been used
  as a treatment for anxiety and panic.
• Hyperventilation and other abnormalities in
  breathing have also been associated with asthma,
  implicated as triggers for bronchoconstriction
  and the production of asthma-like symptoms in
  patients of all levels of objective asthma
  severity.
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• So, what are some helpful breathing exercises?
• 1. Diaphragmatic breathing
• It is a relaxing method, as opposed to the type
  of breathing in the upper chest known as
  emergency mode typically associated with an
  asthma attack.
• It is a sign that your body is in a peaceful
  state and helps it to regenerate.
• METHOD
• When you practice this type of breathing, you can
  choose to lie down or sit straight up.
• Concentrate on your breathing. Preferably you
  should breathe in slowly through your nose.
• Place one hand flat on your upper chest and the
  other hand on your stomach.
• When you inhale, focus on your abdomen, as it is
  this part of your body that needs to be moving
  out and not your chest.
• Exhale very slowly and ensure that your abdomen
  is moving in an inwards motion.
• Try to make your exhalation breath twice the
  length as your inhalation breath.

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2. Buteyko breathing

• Konstantin Buteyko created this type of breathing
  during the 1950s as a way to breathe more slowly
  and deeply.
• As rapid breathing is a common feature in people
  diagnosed with asthma, the Buteyko method can
  help to decrease symptoms like shortness of
  breath.
• Buteyko uses a measurement called the Control
  Pause (CP). This is the amount of time between
  breaths that an individual can comfortably hold
  breath.
• People with asthma who regularly practice Buteyko
  breathing should notice an increase in this
  Control Pause, and a decrease in pulse rate.
  According to studies, this can lead to decreased
  asthma symptoms.
• Buteyko breathing isnt just one type of
  exercise, it uses a series of reduced-breathing
  exercises to teach you how to focus on your
  breath and to slow it right down.

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• 3. Pursed lip breathing
• This type of breathing exercise can be utilised
  if you are during an asthma attack. Since
  shortness of breath is one of the main symptoms
  of asthma, this technique is an ideal method to
  help relieve it.
• METHOD
• First, relax. Close your mouth and then breathe
  in slowly through your nose.
• Then, you just purse your lips as if you are
  about to whistle.
• Finally, you breathe out slowly through these
  pursed lips, to a count of four.
• You should exhale for twice if you inhale.
• This should be done while using diaphragmatic
  breathing as described above to make breathing
  difficulties disappear.

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• 4. Yoga
• Yoga is one of those all-around exercises that
  can help to improve a variety of health issues.
  From localized pain, stress, anxiety and as it
  turns out, asthma, its a wide term with various
  forms.
• Combining movement with deep, meditative
  breathing, yoga is an exercise that can really
  help to improve asthma breathing difficulties and
  overall lung function, as some smaller studies
  have found.
• Yoga can also help to quickly reopen your
  airways, clear mucus and stop wheezing in its
  tracks.
• Studies have also indicated that specific yoga
  breathing exercises also known as pranayama
  can reduce asthma symptoms whilst others can
  reduce inhaler usage.
• The most popular type of yogic breathing is known
  as the Ujjayi breathing technique.
• METHOD
• Here, you take a long breath and focus on filling
  up your stomach. Then move on to filling up your
  chest.
• While you inhale, the stomach is the first to go
  in followed by the chest. This facilitates
  maximum oxygen retention by the body.
• This is an excellent way to reduce respiratory
  issues, and lung-related problems.

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• 5. Nasal breathing
• You should have at least one routine asthma
  review every year and a structured review can
  improve clinical outcomes for people with asthma.
• Just a third of people with asthma have an annual
  asthma review with inhaler check and an asthma
  action plan.
• There should be a section within your asthma plan
  which states the necessary information
  surrounding this. This section should contain a
  checklist of what you will bring to the review
• ?? Your action plan to see if it needs updating.
• ?? Any inhalers and spacers you have, to check
  that you are using them correctly and in the best
  way.
• ??Any questions about your asthma and how to cope
  with it.
• ?? Next asthma review date

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6. Papworth methodDeveloped in Papworth
Hospital, this method has been used for over 50
years. Similar to the Buteyko breathing technique
and the diaphragmatic breathing exercise, It
focuses on problems of dysfunctional breathing
including hyperventilation and hyperinflation
that are often found in asthma sufferers.The
Papworth Method has helped to cut asthma symptoms
by a third is not designed to assist asthma
sufferers with severe episodes or those who
suffer from allergy induced attacks.These
exercises are helpful to those diagnosed as
having mild asthma and the associated symptoms of
rapid breathing and mouth breathing.

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