What is the best exercise for the elderly with asthma?

You can't do intense sports or labor, you can usually do tai chi, fishing, dancing the dance of the elderly, or something.

In order to make the physical exercise of asthma patients achieve the expected results, it is necessary to make the exercise conform to the characteristics of asthma patients, and exercise scientifically and appropriately, specifically the following aspects should be paid attention to:

1) Choose the right sports: Asthma patients can diversify their sports, among all sports, swimming is the most suitable for asthma patients, followed by rowing, tai chi, practicing the 18 methods, gymnastics, badminton, walking, cycling and jogging. By participating in some relaxing and entertaining sports competitions, patients can achieve the purpose of exercising in a pleasant mood.

However, when exercising, you should avoid being competitive and do not force yourself to do some sports that you are not capable of, which is not good for your body.

2) Avoid exercising in cold and dry places: due to the increase in the number of breaths after exercise, the loss of water and heat in the airway is aggravated, especially in cold and dry places, which can lead to an increase in the osmotic pressure of the airway mucosa, and the cooling of the airway induces bronchospasm, so you should try to exercise in a warm and humid environment.

3) Make adequate preparations: Due to the characteristics of asthma patients' own physical conditions, they should make adequate preparations when exercising, and make necessary preparations to adapt to the upcoming exercise. At the same time, at the beginning of the exercise, it is necessary to follow the principle of slow first and then fast, and do not rush to achieve results.

4) Do not exercise too much: If you exercise too much, it is easy to overload the heart and lungs, resulting in too fast heart rate and hyperventilation, which can easily induce asthma or aggravate hypoxia. If to.

The speed of the rate is used to measure whether the amount of exercise of asthma patients is reasonable, so the more appropriate standard is that the heart rate during exercise is generally 60 70 degrees of the highest heart rate. When the patient adapts to a certain amount of exercise, gradually increase the amount of activity.

5) Exercise should not be done during the acute attack: the patient's body is already in a state of hypoxia during the acute attack, and then physical activity at this time is like "making matters worse", and active and full breathing is the best way to alleviate hypoxia. Therefore, asthmatic patients should mainly exercise during remission, and as long as the asthma does not attack, they should continue to exercise every day.

6) Pre-exercise prophylactic medication: Patients with severe exercise-induced asthma should take prophylactic inhalation of cromolyn or salbutamal before exercise, and inhale for 5 to 10 minutes before carrying out activities, which can avoid most exercise-induced asthma attacks.