Hello and welcome. Another site with good info. is http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/ and http://www.scubamed.com/divmed.htm When I first signed up for dive lessons, before I took the class I learned that I was a diabetic. When I first went to my doctor,who by the way is a diver also, she told me that I could not dive due to being diabetic.What helped me was to print out the info from the two sites listed above and take them with me and to talk with her about it. Evan though she was a diver herself she was not aware that some of the medical issues once thought to be contradictive to diving have changed and some people with these issues are able to dive with the right precaution's being taken. My advice would be to print what info. you can find and try to find a Doctor knowledgeable in dive medicine and talk over you're daughters condition with them.
Hello, I'm new! - Daughter has Asthma
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I have moved your introduction of yourself from the medical to the more appropriate meets & greets forum. You can access it at http://www.scubaboard.com/t77800-new-member.html
Welcome & best regards.
DocVikingo
Welcome & best regards.
DocVikingo
Are we talking about your daughter here? Snorkeling is great practice for learning to breath comfortably thru a mouthpiece, wear a mask, get your face wet, etc. Some don't freel comfortable with it at first. Have you spoken with a local Instructor yet, or her physician?
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Hi,
No actually we're not talking about my daughter when it comes to the breathing and snorkling. That unfortunately is me.
She snorkles like a fish!
I didn't get it. Scuba diving was a sport I was hoping we could learn to do together.
Thanks for you information.
If someone hadn't answered me from this forum I'd have never found it.
Dmz
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Hi,
No actually we're not talking about my daughter when it comes to the breathing and snorkling. That unfortunately is me.
She snorkles like a fish!
I didn't get it. Scuba diving was a sport I was hoping we could learn to do together.
Thanks for you information.
If someone hadn't answered me from this forum I'd have never found it.
Dmz
Aeolus
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Hi there,
I have been diving for some time and also have asthma. As others have stated, it really depends upon how your daughter responds to the asthma and also treatment. In my case, I take medication daily, but I can not remember when I had my last "attack". If she has difficuly breathing after excercise or strssful situations, then it is probably not a good idea to dive. If everything is under control, then there is a good chance that it would be fine for her to dive. BE SURE TO GET CLEARANCE FROM A DOCTOR FAMILIAR WITH DIVING FIRST !!! Good luck and good diving.
I have been diving for some time and also have asthma. As others have stated, it really depends upon how your daughter responds to the asthma and also treatment. In my case, I take medication daily, but I can not remember when I had my last "attack". If she has difficuly breathing after excercise or strssful situations, then it is probably not a good idea to dive. If everything is under control, then there is a good chance that it would be fine for her to dive. BE SURE TO GET CLEARANCE FROM A DOCTOR FAMILIAR WITH DIVING FIRST !!! Good luck and good diving.
rcohn
Guest
You've received some good information on asthma and sport diving in this thread. You should take a look at the requirement for a scientific research diver, which are more stringent, close to commercial diver regs. Many divers may be safe and cleared for sport diving and prohibited from diving commercially or for research.
Take a look at: http://www.gso.uri.edu/diving/manual.pdf
Ralph
Take a look at: http://www.gso.uri.edu/diving/manual.pdf
Ralph
Diverchik
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SteveD:
I agree, why not cure the asthma
A "GOOD" health food store can certainly get you going in the right place...This one, and the owner Linda are AMAZING - she can get you on a good path.
http://www.mothernaturespantry.net
Sylvain
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My wife started diving in 2002 and she has Asthma in order to take the course she had to be asthma free for a period of 6 months. She was at the time, she never had an attack since the time she started diving. I think that time is changing and that the different organization are noticing with the help of better medicine and doctors that in some case people suffering from asthma can dive and in other NO WAY don't take the advice of a regular jo see a professional asthma doctor that knows about diving and let him make the decision again talk to a doctor that "knows diving".
Sylvain
Contributor
Diverchik:I agree, why not cure the asthma
This one, and the owner Linda are AMAZING - she can get you on a good path.
http://www.mothernaturespantry.net
Sorry to break it to you but food has nothing to do with "asthma" and will not cure it nothing against health food but this will not help in this case.
Like I said in my previous post take the advise from a professional doctor who knows diving
Anybody notice the original thread is from 2004? I suspect this girl either has or has decided not to learn to dive in the meantime . . .
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