Just found out my son may have asthma

asthma is not the end of the world. There are treatments available. Breathing treatments/inhalers work.

Of course he could still play sports in Louisiana.

Allergies? The fluid in the lungs is probably just draining down the back of the throat and going down the wrong hole. I wouldn't worry about anything kid related until IF he starts losing his breath on the playground at five or six.

Weird shite happens with kids; my daughter could blow snot bubbles out of her eye until she turned almost 4.

He'll learn to work around it and live a normal life.

It's entirely possible he could grow out of it. That's what happened with my cousin's son.

And yes, you can play sports with asthma. Just have to stay on top of it, figure out triggers, manage with meds. Focus on good hygiene, especially during flu season to reduce upper respiratory infections. Start looking into pediatric allergist in your area. When I was a D1 trainer, we had multiple players (I covered football and women's tennis) that had asthma playing at a highly competitive level. And that's here in Kentucky/Ohio Valley where asthma rates are some of the highest in the country due to everything that settles here.

A list of Olympic Gold Medalists who had asthma (and were pretty open about it):

Greg Louganis (swimming)

Mark Spitz (swimming)

Kristi Yamaguchi (figure skating)

Nancy Hogshead-Makar (swimming)

Amy Van Dyken (swimming)

Apolo Anton Ohno (speed skating)

Noah Lyles (track and field)

Paula Radcliffe (marathon runner)

Peter Vanderkaay (swimming)

I had bad asthma my whole childhood. Had to do breathing treatments, had asthma attacks, the whole nine yards.

I had an inhaler and that’s all I needed on a day to day basis. But asthma attacks would come if I didn’t have it. Played baseball, basketball, and was hyperactive burning lots of energy 24/7. Never had an issue as I got into grade school and beyond.

One day when I was about 12 to 14… I was playing basketball. Forgot my inhaler at home. Started getting shortness of breath.. could feel an asthma attack coming… sat down… focused on breathing and made it home, but when I went to get my inhaler, it was empty and the drug store was closed.
Woke up fine the next day and haven’t had asthma since. I think I would’ve outgrown it much sooner but I don’t know at what point my body started becoming dependent on the inhaler instead of healing itself.

Mingo running attack people on the Health/Fitness Board

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Greg Louganis

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Without an inhaler too. Great vo2 max

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Oxygen is more concentrated close to the ground.

Nephew has asthma and swims competitively at the high school level.

Definitely should have posted on the OT instead! That's where the real doctors hang out.