nytimes.com:
Hyperventilation -- breathing too fast and too deeply -- could be the underlying cause of asthma, making it worse by lowering the level of carbon dioxide in the blood so much that the airways constrict to conserve it.
Managing Asthma With New Breathing Exercises
The Buteyko Breathing Method - Asthma releif
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Ed & Deb you are promising too much from this technique...
Yes, by regulating your breathing you can avoid causing an excessive alkalemia, but this CERTAINLY shouldn't be relied on as your only course of action against an asthma attack.
This breathing technique will not "relax your airways" because an asthma exacerbation is an immune response of sorts, causing inflammation bronchoconstriction and excess mucous production.... Which needs to be treated with a bronchodilator or steroids. Period.
Signed , RRT-NPS, AE-C ( Respiratory Therapist, Certified Asthma Educator)
I've done it (Buteyko method) and I can swear by it.
It works for my allergies every time.
Breathing or brathe control or better yet
prana - life force .. yama - control
in Yoga is called pranayama
when you learn how to regulate the breath .. work with your ;ife force you have amazing healing potential
in this article in the Times - it is said that the doctor devloped this technique ... well it is actually an ancient method.
when you learn more about pranayama it is benefical but works with many illnesses .. blood pressure and even anti - aging
when you make friends with your breath you can calm your mind .. release stress which is the cause of much illnesses.
BE THE CHANGE,
Ed
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First Posted: 11- 5-09 02:20 PM | Updated: 11- 5-09 05:23 PM