Except for diving with air bottles, a child with asthma can play sports. But there are a number of sports less “asmógenos” than others.
The free running, which is the basis of the running, athletics, and sports like football or basketball, is the activity which can produce bronchospasm. As there is usually a refractory period of 2 to 4 hours’ duration in the exercise-induced asthma during which no bronchospasm occurs again, however much they continue to exercise, so running causes an intense and continuous more bronchospasm that perform the exercise intermittently.
Activities that cause exercise-induced asthma. In order of severity are:
- Free Race
- Career treadmill
- Cycling
- Swimming
In addition, sports like swimming in warm pool (hot and humid air), gymnastics, walking, golf, hiking and biking on level ground are much less asmógenos. The tennis and ball games, but require much free running, usually take the form of intermittent heavy exertion, so are also good, like the martial arts (judo, karate, taekwondo), fencing, etc..
The deep diving with compressed air cylinders is not an activity recommended by the pressure changes involved, and unable to cope with an asthma attack at a certain depth: In the midst of a crisis of dyspnea, it may be very difficult to carry out maneuvers required for decompression to the surface without risking barotrauma.
The mountain sports in asthmatics (mountaineering, alpine skiing and background, etc.) only have the problem of breathing cold, dry air, which can be minimized by the use of masks or helmets.
In the Barcelona Olympics (1992) found that between 8 and 12% of competitors were asthmatics. As is well known, there are great athletes who were declared as asthma, in cycling (Alex Zülle, Miguel Indurain), athletics (Jordi Llopart, Patricia Morales), sailing (Theresa Zabell), taekwondo (Gabriel Esparza), swimming (Mark Spitz ), synchronized swimming (Beth Fernandez), judo, basketball, etc..
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