EFFECT OF MENSTRUAL CYCLE ON ASTHMA SYMPTOMS

Asthmatics usually experience increased severity of symptoms when they are smoking, inhaling cigarette smoke, dust or exposed to stress. However, recent research done at the Haukeland University Hospital, Norway recently revealed the existence of a link between the severity of asthma symptoms and an increased number of episodes with the menstrual cycle.
The results obtained are compared with weight, body mass index and smoking status, but the end result is clear; the symptoms of asthma worse and increases after ovulation is done.

Time Of Worsening Asthma Symptoms
The study involving over 4,000 respondents women who suffer from asthma and measure the severity of symptoms and the number of episodes of asthma attacks at certain times in the middle of their menstrual cycle, and found that the woman was having symptoms as well as the largest number of attacks between the 10th day until the 22nd, and tends to decline during the period of ovulation (the 14th to 16th century).

All of these women have a body mass index, smoking status and age are different, but the results shown are always constant. Asthma symptoms which include breathing, gasping and coughing reads usually started getting worse after the time of ovulation and menstruation finish begins.

However, according to Chief Researcher Ferenc Macsali, the actual process is still not clearly known. Asthma symptoms that indicated it is likely to be more severe in women who are obese or have a habit of smoking, but a constant result suggests that there is something in the menstrual cycle that affects the severity and asthma attacks.