Posted on September 9, 2008 in Lastest News
A new study reveals that athletes prone to more perspiration are secure from exercise-induced asthma. Researchers from the Naval Medical Center (San Diego) opine that there is an inherent connection between the sweat volume and the amount of water secreted from the person’s airways.
Researchers suggest that athletes who sweat or perspire less have drier airways. As a result, the airways are more likely to tighten and cause breathing problems during exercises.
The results are based on a number of tests conducted on 56 healthy marines who suffered from symptoms of exercise-induced asthma such as – coughing, wheezing, breathlessness and fatigue.
The researchers then administered a medicine called “methacholine”, which enables the airways of an asthmatic to constrict at lower doses. The researchers also made the volunteers have a drug called “pilocarpine” which had the propensity to infuse sweating and saliva production.
Results of the study showed that those marines who perspired more were suffering from lesser airway constriction after they were given the methacholine. It was also observed that the sweating marines had a higher tear and saliva production.
Dr. Warren Lockett, a senior researchers working on the same finding says that the study does not imply that people who sweat often are protected against exercise-induced asthma. He in turn suggests that, it is the “amount” of fluid secreted and/or present in the airways that can tell how protected or not you are against exercise-induced asthma.
So as long as the airways of an athlete are moist – sweating, salivation or tears, there isn’t any dearth of healthy air to breathe!
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