Learn
Buteyko
learn to live without
your asthma!
What is Buteyko ?
Buteyko
provides a comprehensive approach to achieving safe and effective asthma
control. Buteyko helps you to control your asthma through simple breathing
exercises and asthma management - without the use of drugs. Worldwide, more
and more people are becoming asthmatic. Medical research has created many
drugs to combat the symptoms of asthma - to help
asthmatics
gain control over their breathing difficulties.
Using the Buteyko Method, control comes
without the use of drugs. Buteyko teaches you to control your condition by
working to alter your asthma inducing breathing patterns. As you practice
and adapt these breathing exercises into your life, you'll find your need
for medication and also asthma symptoms are cut dramatically.
How does it work ?
Asthmatics breathe on average about
twice as much air as they should. This cools and dries the airways making
them sensitive and causing the mucus glands to produce more mucus to moisten
them. At the same time they lose carbon dioxide from the blood stream which
makes smooth muscle wrapped around the airways tighten and the Mast cells to
release histamine which causes inflammation and narrows the airways further.
If you hyperventilate for a period
of time the brain gets used to the lower levels of carbon dioxide and makes
you continue to hyperventilate to keep the level low. The very basis of the
Buteyko Method is
breathing through your nose continuously.
This makes it a lot harder to hyperventilate.
