Breathe Easy: 10 Tips to Workout with Asthma

• Close Your Mouth
  

During physical activity, people have a tendency to breathe through their mouths, oftentimes allowing cold, dry air to reach the lower airways without passing through the warming, humidifying effects of the nose. Since mouth breathing only moistens air to 60-70% relative humidity (nose-breathing warms and saturates air to about 80 to 90% relative humidity before it reaches the lungs), it may be a factor in causing EIA.

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