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Well if only it was as simple as that!
I still had an attack whilst staying in a very clean air conditioned house in Australia, but I do think it was triggered by the lung infection I contracted.
Jen
air conditioning has been known to trigger my asthma, esp in cars and Vue cinemas!
If dust mites/pollution are one of your personal triggers, then somehow removing them (or removing yourself from them, as in your case) would inevitably reduce the severity of your asthma symptoms, or the frequency of asthma episodes.
However, that set of circumstances are very specific to you personally, and are unlikely to be either appropriate, practical or even remotely possible for most members here!
I'm afraid it's just not true to say that there is no bacteria on board - we bring bacteria with us!
Quite so, Dr H! I hadn't really thought of that. The same is true of dust mites too, of course, so perhaps there was some other trigger present at home that wasn't present on the ship?
You would really have to assume that, because there is just no getting away from those dust-mites...I would hate to think how many there would be in the standard bunk on board!
Sea Air
I wonder if it is in the breathing of the nice clean fresh air of the sea, providing fortification before the bed mites bite! I know myself that a visit to Southend-On-Sea to walk that long pier has always been a great help to me (On a nice day that is!).
I would be interested to know if anyone else has found the sea air helpful?
Well there is someone on eBay selling 'salt pipes'. I don't know if this works. But could is be the 'salty air' at sea?
Hi ugurcan ...well I'm off to Southend today, for a fix of better air myself! I think that the difference between the urban air of Romford, and that at the end of the pier at Southend is vast. I do except though that this cannot compete with being out on the ocean, but it's my best option (There may well be the traces of pollution wafting over from the Power Station of the Isle of Grain etc!)
When I come home I am usually completely refreshed. I wouln't say that it has an immeadiate effect on my asthma, because I have noticed little differnce in my peak flow before and after visits (although it doesn't get any worse!), but what it does seem to do is put my rhinits to bed for a few days and perhaps help the immune system....
This is not a new thing for me. I have been visiting the sea side when & where ever possible since a young age, my mother first noticing the benefit the sea air brought me - some 40 years ago.
If sea air could be bottled I would campaign for it to be available on the NHS!
All the best,
Twizzle
Hi rajeshk4u, I have often thought that sea air has an absence of content assocaited with urban life, and have also wondered myself if the sea air has other ingredients depleted when coming to land. The saltiness could be one, the other could be the natural CO2 given off by millions of marine life organisms...
...but I will look into these salt pipes!!!
Twizzle
when i went so spain a few years ago I found the sea air very helpful and hardly had to use my ventolin at all but that might just of been a conicidence who knows?! but I do also find being by the sea very soothing and relaxing.
Lejaya
