{"id":2416,"date":"2009-05-27T08:20:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T06:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2009-05-27T08:20:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T06:20:52","slug":"surfers-asthma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/05\/surfers-asthma\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfer&#8217;s asthma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here comes the link to a case report of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/ocean\/aap\/2009\/00000030\/00000002\/art00013\"> surfer&#8217;s asthma<\/a> (could not resist)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230; We present the case of a 42-year-old man with a 2-year history of wheezing, chest tightness, and upper respiratory symptoms that were associated with surfing.<!--more--> He denied symptoms with other forms of exercise and had no personal history of asthma. His physical exam was unremarkable and his pre- and postbronchodilator spirometry was normal. After detailed history and keen observation on the patient&#8217;s part, a diagnosis was made and he enjoyed good response to the therapy for this condition &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, we know about baker&#8217;s asthma (and many other occupational triggers that didn&#8217;t make it into the literature) while surfer&#8217;s asthma is clearly something new. Physical triggers like cold+dry or wet+warm air let many asthmatics cough &#8211; or is it simply the thrill of surfing that let the pupil and the airway narrow?<br \/>\n..<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here comes the link to a case report of surfer&#8217;s asthma (could not resist) &#8230; We present the case of a 42-year-old man with a 2-year history of wheezing, chest tightness, and upper respiratory symptoms that were associated with surfing. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2482,2484,2481,2483],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","tag-history-of-asthma","tag-spirometry","tag-upper-respiratory-symptoms","tag-wheezing-chest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}