Should adults with asthma avoid exercising? Can you outgrow it? Here's what you need to know

If you suffer from asthma and have experienced attacks that necessitate emergency medical help, you are not alone.

The most worrying finding, according to Dr Adrian Chan, a consultant respiratory physician at Respiratory Medical Associates and the president of AAA, is that “poor asthma control continues to have a considerable impact on people’s mental health and wellbeing”. “It affects their sleep and also has an impact on their physical activity," he said.“Asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway disease that affects around 5 per cent of adults in Singapore.

Controller or preventer inhalers, which can be brown, orange or yellow coded, work slowly over time and are to be used regularly to prevent asthma attacks. Instead, patients tend to just fall back on the blue reliever for quick relief during a bout of asthma. “With the quick relief, it is no wonder that patients only feel the need to use their relievers,” said Dr Liew. But “relievers do not control the airway inflammation”.If you find yourself puffing on the blue reliever inhaler three or more times a week, it is a sign that your asthma isn’t well controlled, said Dr Chan, as it merely masks the worsening symptoms.

Fortunately, there are now “combination preventer-reliever treatments that can treat and relieve the symptoms to achieve control faster”, he said.If you’ve been battling asthma all your life, you would have heard of some “solutions” or notions about the chronic condition. CNA Lifestyle got the doctors to examine some common ones below:You’ll outgrow asthma when you enter adulthood

Not true. “Adult-onset asthma is a known entity and can happen without a history of childhood asthma,” said Dr Liew. “A controller inhaler is like any chronic medication that you take for chronic diseases such as diabetes or hypertension. Since asthma is a chronic disease, patients should take their controllers just like how they would take other chronic medications for other diseases,” she said.

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