Dr. David Hagaman answers the question: 'If A Child Coughs Only With Exercise?' — -- Question: My child only coughs with exercise. Should he/she be on regular asthma medicine? Answer: Coughing is ...

Mar. 23 -- WEDNESDAY, April 25 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Merck asthma and allergy drug Singulair (montelukast sodium) for people aged 15 and older who ...

Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) is experienced by the majority of an estimated 300 million individuals who have asthma, a condition that affects all ages and is increasing globally.

Physical inactivity has long been common among children with asthma due to fears of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB). However, new evidence-based recommendations show that with proper ...

Fitness nuts beware: Exercise can actually cause asthma. Well, sort of. Alongside asthma, a respiratory condition where the lungs’ airways tighten and breathing becomes labored, sits exercise-induced ...

You're feeling pretty good about your fitness. You lift regularly. Hit the treadmill as much as you can manage. Stretch. Then, one day, you're working out, and you feel your chest constrict, your ...

The field of exercise-induced respiratory conditions in athletes encompasses a range of transient and chronic airway alterations encountered by individuals during or after vigorous physical exertion.

When an athlete reaches the podium despite a prior medical event—a cancer diagnosis, say, or a car accident—we consider it a triumph of the human spirit. When a bunch of athletes do so, and all of ...

Background Repeated and prolonged inhalation of cold air is believed to be the cause of the high incidence and prevalence of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction and asthma in winter endurance ...