Case report: an athlete runs through his asthma.

Asthmatics often find that reasonably hard exercise of moderate duration like 6-8 minutes of continuous moderately hard running causes troublesome exercise induced asthma (EIA) while either very brief, intense exercise or very prolonged exercise does not necessarily cause an attack (Fitch et al, 1976). Neither the cause of EIA nor the reasons why some forms of exercise have greater propensity to provoke EIA is known (Fitch et al, 1976). Even though asthmatics have often won gold medals in competitive swimming, they have seldom