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 ...

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.

Exercise-induced asthma, technically called exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, or EIB, can make working out feel downright painful, if not altogether impossible. A narrowing of the airways that ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Asthma provoked by physical exertion is a common and often unrecognized occurrence in collegiate athletes, a study shows. Among 107 Ohio State varsity athletes from 22 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At this time of year it’s not an uncommon scene: Little League baseball players wheeze as they cross home plate and try to catch their breath. Players, coaches, umpires and parents watch in dismay, ...

Expert Rev Clin Immunol. 2009;5(2):193-207. EIA = Exercise-induced asthma; ISAAC = International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood; PEFR = Peak expiratory flow rate; VQ = Video questionnaire; ...

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 ...