Are There Breathing Exercises That Can Help With My Asthma Symptoms? (0:41)
Although it's difficult to alter your breathing to control asthma, there is a slow breathing method called Buteyko that has been shown to help. Watch pulmonologist Brian Gelbman, MD, discuss this method that can potentially help with asthma symptoms.
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So it's difficult to alter your breathing to change your asthma. Your breathing is deeply regulated in your brain, and it happens on a subconscious level, that being said they're having some method that have some success. In particular there is a method called the bouquet method, which has been shown and they help people, get through Asthma exacerbation when they have them.
This has been approved by the British Thoracic Society as a treatment for Asthma The bouquet method is a specialized method of breathing by trained individuals in the technique. But in general, it involves slow breathing with long exhalations. In general with asthma it's best to not try to breath too fast which will work against the airflow limitations.
Brian Gelbman, MD is assistant attending physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital and is board certified in internal, pulmonary and critical care medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
