How Swimming Helps The Asthmatic Patient

Asthma is one of the most common ailments that plague a lot of people all over the world, but curiously, the available therapy for the disease also very much within anyone’s reach. Swimming is known to help the asthmatic patient.

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Breathing in the air that surrounds a water environment makes the lungs stronger and more resilient against asthma. Because the air is moist, the lungs are forced to work harder, and thus build resistance against asthma.

The activity of swimming itself, especially when one goes underwater intermittently, is a good practice for the lungs. When such a pressure builds up, the lungs tend to expand. If it expands, it increases its capacity to take in air, even after the swimming exercise. The lungs are then capacitated to take in more oxygen.

When one is in a normal environment, they become hardly conscious about their breathing. This is because normal breathing is involuntary. When one is in water, a person becomes more conscious about their breathing, making inhalation and exhalation a very deliberate act, which is what happens when one is trying to manage an asthma attack.

There is absolutely a lot of advantages for the asthma patient when they go in the water, making swimming a very practical solution to help dampen the effects of asthma. It’s a readily available solution for anyone who wishes to give it a try.

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Todd Benderson is a fitness enthusiast. For more ideas on healthy living, follow Todd on Twitter.

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