What do patients with respiratory diseases need to pay attention to when doing running sports?

Patients with respiratory diseases should make gradual progress, always self-monitoring, and try to avoid running in cold, dry and other harsh environments.

1. The combination of exercise therapy with drug therapy and regular running and exercise can be used as an adjunct to the treatment of respiratory diseases, but it cannot replace effective drug therapy (e.g., antibiotics and bronchodilator drugs). Before running and exercising, patients must be under the supervision of a doctor for proper drug therapy to avoid accidents.

2. Exercise should be gradual, and patients should run and exercise according to their actual situation. Exercise should follow the principle of from slow to fast, from easy to difficult, from time to long time, from small amount of exercise to gradually increase the amount of exercise, so as not to aggravate the disease and cause accidents.

3. Patients under self-supervision conditions should measure their lung function before performing running exercise and then review their lung function during exercise to understand the effect of exercise therapy in order to improve and adjust their exercise prescription. If there are no conditions for measuring lung function, you can simply use the number of breaths per minute as an indicator of general changes in lung function. It involves measuring the number of breaths per minute and heart rate before exercise and using that as a baseline.

4. During subsequent exercise, you can get a general idea of exercise capacity and respiratory function by observing changes in breaths per minute and heart rate. If the breaths per minute and heart rate values do not change much after exercise, this means that lung function has improved. On the contrary, difficulty in breathing and other undesirable phenomena occur during exercise, which means that the patient's lung function and the function of the respiratory system are not satisfactory.

5, try to avoid exercising in harsh environments, people with respiratory diseases should choose to exercise indoors as much as possible. If you exercise outdoors in winter, pay attention to wearing masks and hats, and try to avoid cold air directly into the inhalation tract to minimize the irritation of cold air on the inhalation tract. Especially in smoggy weather, outdoor running and exercise is not suitable .

6, exercise should pay attention to exercise safety, to prevent respiratory symptoms, especially when asthma attack, should immediately stop exercise, if necessary, should be used as soon as possible bronchodilators to reduce asthma. If you have an asthma state, breathing difficulties, please seek medical attention immediately.