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.

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 ...

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 ...

When an athlete reaches the podium despite a prior medical event—a cancer diagnosis, say, or a car accident—we consider it a triumph of the human spirit. When a bunch of athletes do so, and all of ...

The field of exercise-induced respiratory conditions in athletes encompasses a range of transient and chronic airway alterations encountered by individuals during or after vigorous physical exertion.

Bronchodilator use (total number of doses/puffs) was significantly reduced (p < 0.05) during the last 2 weeks of the fish oil diet (45 puffs; 95% CI, 34 to 51 puffs) compared to the normal diet (61 ...

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 ...

Physical inactivity has long been common among children with asthma due to fears of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB). However, new evidence-based recommendations show that with proper ...