Asthma Breathing Treatment - Buteyko
Posted by admin - 28/09/09 at 01:09 pmBreathing is an essential in life. It is through breathing that we live and a person is declared dead when he's not breathing. Asthma is a chronic disease wherein a person who suffers from this disease has trouble breathing because there is a constriction of airways in the lungs due to inflammation. And since asthma is associated with difficulty in breathing, certain breathing techniques are done to alleviate asthmatic symptoms and reduce the frequent asthma flare ups.
There is a wide variety of asthma breathing techniques out there and one of the most popular and effective is the Buteyko Breathing Method. It was developed by the late Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko. According to Buteyko, the key to asthma lies in carbon dioxide and that asthma happens because a person releases too much carbon dioxide, which is the reason why his or her body tries to protect him by constricting the air passages to trap in more carbon dioxide. He said that if you are perfectly healthy, you will have 6.5% carbon dioxide in the alveoli of your lungs. This carbon dioxide is critical in keeping a person’s pH at safe level. pH is a chemical measure of how much is the amount of acid in our body fluids.
To help prevent the loss of carbon dioxide to a fatally low level, our body tries to protect us by developing a certain defensive mechanism in the form of constricting air passages and increasing production of mucus. This is why wheezing and breathing difficulties are symptoms of an asthma attack.
The basic method of Buteyko involves breathing out fully, and then trying to breathe out a little more until you feel like your abdomen is being drawn back against your spine. Try to stay in this exhaled state for as long as you comfortably can, then try inhaling as gentle as you can without gasping or gulping. After doing that, breathe normally for a while. When ready, do the whole process again and attempt to increase the length of time in holding an exhaled state as comfortably as you can.
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