But it is necessary to bear in mind that at least 80 % of the children with asthma can present a broncoconstricción with the sports practice, unless the suitable measures are taken). Nevertheless, and given the benefit psicoemocional and integrator of the sport, a big one is an error sobreproteger to the asthmatic child and a normal level of physical exercise prevents him.

When we initiate a physical activity for the first time we all get tired, feel fatigue and drowning sensation. In the asthmatic child who has not gone in for sport earlier, these sensations are even stronger. For it, the adaptation of the child with asthma to the sports activity must be very progressive, so that with the time he learns to distinguish between the sensation of normal drowning for an intense exercise, and the drowning sensation for an asthma crisis.

Except the diving with gas cylinders of compressed air, an asthmatic child can practise any sport. But there exists a series of sports less "asmógenos" than others.

The free career, which is the base of the jogging, of the athletics, and of sports like the soccer or the basketball, is the activity that more broncospasmo can produce. Since in general a refractory period exists, from 2 until 4 hours of duration, in the asthma induced by the exercise during which the broncospasmo does not appear again, however much exercise keeps on being done, running of intense and continued form provokes a major broncospasmo to realize the exercise of intermittent form.

In gravity order they would be:

1. Free career
2. Career in band without end
3. Cycling
4. Swimming

On the other hand, sports as the swimming in covered and air-conditioned swimming pool (humid and warm air), the gymnastics, the march on foot, the golf, the trekking and the bicycle in flat area are great less asmógenos. The tennis and the games of ball, although they need many free career, usually realizes in the shape of intermittent intense efforts, for what also they are advisable, as the martial arts (judo, karate, taekwondo), the fencing, etc.

The depth diving with gas cylinders of compressed air is not an advisable activity, for the changes of pressure that it bears, and for the inability to face to an asthma crisis to a certain depth: In the middle of a shortness of breath crisis, it can turn out to be very difficult to carry out the necessary decompression maneuvers to emerge to the surface without barotrauma risks.

The sports of high mountain in asthmatic (mountaineering, alpine skiing and of fund, etc) only have the problem of the respiration of cold and dry air, which can be minimized by means of the use of masks or helmets.

In the Olympic Games of Barcelona (1992) it was proved that between 8 and 12 % of the competitors were asthmatic. Since it is well-known, there exist big sportsmen who have declared themselves like asthmatic, in cycling (Alex Zülle, Miguel Induráin), athletics (Jordi Llopart, Patricia Morales), he watches (Theresa Zabell), taekwondo (Gabriel Esparza), swimming (Mark Spitz), in sync swimming (Bet Fernández), judo, basketball, etc.

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