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I occasionally get excercise induced asthma - normally it's to do with pollen and pollution
That sounds more like allergic asthma which you only notice if you're placing extra demands on your pulmonary system by exercising. True exercise induced asthma doesn't need anything else in the atmosphere to trigger it, just the exercise. IANAD, but allergic asthma probably responds better to a preventer (e.g. beclomethasone, brown inhaler) rather than a reliever (e.g. salbutamol, blue inhaler). With the steroidal preventer medication, it takes a period of routine administration (up to a week) to get the full benefit and it needs experimentation to dial in the dosing to suit the individual, there's at least a 10:1 range of dosing between individuals for the minimal dose which provides optimal benefit.
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allergic asthma probably responds better to a preventer (e.g. beclomethasone, brown inhaler) rather than a reliever (e.g. salbutamol, blue inhaler)
In addition to your antihistamine of choice.
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Oh that's interesting. I don't get it quite so much these days anyway - think I maintain a pretty high level of fitness throughout the year now compared to when I was properly suffering - I guess if you're coming from shit all fitness and then asking your lungs to work really hard just when the trees are starting to flower, then you're going to feel it that much more.
Only had it once this year so far, and that was a few weeks ago in Mallorca where I guess there was that much more flowering than over here.
NotThamesWater
bashthebox
I occasionally get excercise induced asthma - normally it's to do with pollen and pollution. Nothing too awful, just short of breath and coughing after long hard rides, takes a few hours to die down. Did get an inhaler once (helpful doctor told me to stop riding, just in case) but it didn't do much to ease the symptoms, either taken prior or after. Can't remember what the drug was though.