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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I already have it, so I guess I can do all the skiing I want (/ can afford) 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I have a friend who suffers from asthma and arthritis and she finds both are less troublesome in the Alps in winter - the arthritis much less so, presumably because of the much lower humidity. that was her excuse for buying an apartment in a ski resort. 
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pam w,
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that was her excuse for buying an apartment in a ski resort
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that's what we say too! Winter spent here leaves us much healthier... and pretty good the weather is up in the mountains at the moment.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm sure the lower humidity is an advantage in the alps. Some years I have been absolutely choked up with gunge on my chest prior to going, but within 24 hrs of arriving I'm as clear as a bell and able to exert myself skiing as much as I wish without worrying about choking. N.B. I don't suffer from asthma, but have occasionally been prescribed steroid inhalers to help with long term chest complaints caused by colds that have 'taken hold'.
Last edited by You'll need to Register first of course. on Sun 27-06-10 18:54; edited 1 time in total
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I'm asthmatic and I find I definitely breathe better in the alps, even with the thinner air at altitude. I guess it's largely due to the lack of pollution.
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Some major conclusions can be drawn from this article!
1) Despite having Asthma you can be an olympic athlete! (so get of your back bottom asthma kids and join in p.e.!)
I have seen one kid actually diagnosed as having sport induced asthma - Wow! Isn't that caused exhaustion!
2) Training in Britain is more likely to give you Asthma!
In which case high alpine skiing with low levels of particulate pollution will be fine but we live in a Shi* country!
This type of psuedo science is what we have to deal with all the time! Lets be rigorous...how does the sample compare with Austria! Australia! How big was the sample size!
This sort of science is behind global warming!!!!!!
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Sadly Skiing is such a deadly sport that 100% of people who ski will die......eventually.
Im sure that sex may cause Ashma too....
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Im sure that sex may cause Ashma too....
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only if you smoke during intercourse...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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only if you smoke during intercourse... |
Do you smoke during intercourse..................... I don't know I've never looked. 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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What a load of tosh. Many of us non asthmatics will have experienced a bit of cough and wheeze after full on exercise in smoggy polleny summer.
I am dismayed by the approach of medicalising normal experience and turning it into a disease for the health industry to make a business out of. Anyone can get bronchospasm with enough stimulation, even if they don't suffer from asthma. Who has inhaled chlorine from the loo after bleach and felt a bit chesty? The dry air in the alps might be a risk factor for some to wheeze, but the absence of house dust mites and atmospheric pollution generally leaves most asthmatics feeling much better, as you all recognise 
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You know it makes sense.
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I have been asthmatic pretty much since birth.
At school I was discouraged from sport, as my asthma is exercise induced. Doh!!
My lungs are massively easier to control if I exercise regularly and are massively better in the alps when skiing.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Alpine air has long been used as a cure/treatment for various lung conditions, wealthy people suffering from TB were sent to the alps and this apparently helped, after WW1 large numbers of soldiers who had been gassed in the trenches also ended up there, if you go to Davos to the end of the lake at Davos Wolfgang you will find the site of hospital on the lakeside built just for that purpose, recently (1993) replaced these days it still specialises in Allergies and respiritory conditions plus skin conditions, the high altitude and clean air all help
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Poster: A snowHead
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Before drawing any conclusions from this, I would like to read more. As they are talking here about elite athletes, one assumes that they must be on medication for their asthma and have had it diagnosed? I have known diagnosed asthmatics to suffer in the Alps when it is extremely cold, or at high altitude. Hubby's allergic asthma is far better in winter due to lack of house dust mites, but with frequent summer visits his hayfever no longer goes away.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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under a new name, Your comments have reminded me about my cycling. As you know I tend to be a fair weather cyclist (yes, I know I'm a lightweight), and tend not to cycle through the winter. The first time I go out I come back sounding like I'm on 50 a day cigs., but even by the second and certainly the third trips out I scarcely wheeze. I wonder how many asthmatics would benefit from exercise regimes - maybe carefully monitored at first?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I have asthma and attacks are induced by exercise a lot. However no matter how hard I exert myself in themoutains, I virtually never get an attack up there, whereas I can be pretty sure even running for the bus in the UK will give me an attack.
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yes, I know I'm a lightweight
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that's not your usual complaint, Megamum! some people are never happy with themselves...
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I have been thinking (I know it's risky) about exercise induced asthma and have come up with these points.
If you are not exercising your lung capacity can be reduced by as much as 50% before you feel the symptoms of asthma.
If you are exerciseing you will feel the symptoms of asthma when your lung capacity is only reduced by 10% to 20%
So is exercise causing the asthma or is it using the lungs enough to show you that you are already having some degree of asthma?
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I was diagnosed with asthma as a child and found it very difficult to partake in 'normal' sports such as football and rugby (and believe me, it wasn't for lack of trying!). When I had my first skiing holiday with school at 12, it seemed I had finally found a sport I could do - probably the clean mountain air was the trick?
Conversely, our 10 y/o son was diagnosed with 'exercise-induced asthma' about 12 months ago after we noticed that he seemed unusually tired both during and after sport, be it skiing, football or whatever. He then fell short of breath at a race last year which prompted us to take him to our GP and he was diagnosed.
Sarge McSarge, your point about sport 'finding out' your asthma is something we've pondered a lot......
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| What a load of tosh. Many of us non asthmatics..... |
Mountain Haddock, unless you have suffered with it or been close to someone who has, I would suggest keeping such sweeping generalisations to yourself. 
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Mountain Haddock, 'a bit of a cough and wheeze' is not the same as asthma.
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