Most of those afflicted suffer nothing more than mild cold symptoms in the spring and shortness of breath on days with severe smog. However, even the worst sufferers could improve their symptoms with a few simple adjustments to their daily regimen.
Exercise is an under appreciated treatment that can quickly improve the symptoms of asthma.
Although exercising with asthma can be painful and difficult, over time it generally alleviates asthma symptoms. Aerobic exercise increases the strength of the entire cardiovascular system, but most importantly for chronic asthma sufferers, it increases the strength of the lungs. Although aerobic exercise is the most difficult part of a workout for an asthmatic, it is also the most important. Exercise generally does not directly improve the symptoms of allergies, but in both asthmatic and non-asthmatic allergy sufferers, exercise indirectly helps by making the lungs stronger and better able to deal with the symptoms of both diseases. The recent introduction of air filters on the consumer market is great news for allergy sufferers.