BREATHING EXERCISES TO STOP OR PREVENT AN ASTHMA ATTACK

Breathing exercises can help anyone experiencing trouble breathing, increased heartrate, or anxiety, especially when they all happen at once. People with asthma can benefit from learning breathing techniques that can help them slow, stop, or prevent an asthma attack. Breathing exercises help retrain your breathing by increasing the strength of respiratory muscles and improving ribcage flexibility. They reduce asthma symptoms by improving lung function and overall lung health. Breathing exercises can’t prevent airways from narrowing, but they can help you control your breathing. And better breathing control reduces the likelihood and frequency of asthma attacks. Stress and anxiety can trigger asthma and vice versa. Intentional breathing decreases stress and anxiety and helps prevent asthma triggered by emotions.

P.S. Breathing and relaxation exercises that help improve asthma include diaphragmatic breathing, nasal breathing, alternate-nostril breathing, purse-lipped breathing, yoga breathing, and meditation.

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