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Sniff, Sneeze! The Low Down on Allergies and Sport

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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Asthma - I Can't Breathe, How Do You Test It?

In the olden days we used something called a metacoline challenge test, which is similar to chlorine. It's an airware irritant. But you're not going to do that. So this is more of em just taking a really, really good history. And may be having some background evidence of some background asthma with the lung function test,. but a lot of it is based on history, and we know. The patient says, now, i'mnormally fine. I'm fine if i go for a gentle run, but if i went for a hard cross country run, i get a little bit tight got and when i play water polar. I get tight all the time

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