New Breath Technique for Asthma: Frolov Respiration Device

 Humans on the west know very little about health discoveries in Russia. Nevertheless there are some inventions in management of asthma and asthma exacerbations there. Apart from the Buteyko breathing method (a more known Soviet innovation with six western randomized controlled medical trials), there is another supplementary medical technique that is employed recently for prevention and management of asthma and exacerbations of asthma. It is called the Frolov breath device therapy with around 2,000,000(!) Frolov breathing devices have been bought in Russia.

 

How could respiration retraining improve symptoms of adults with asthma? First, all available scientific publications indicate that asthmatics over-breathe at rest. When in stable conditions (no symptoms of asthma), they breathe about 2.5 times more air than the medical norm). During acute asthma exacerbations, they breathe even more. How can chronic overbreathing lead to symptoms of asthma? There exist three traditional signs or criteria of asthma. All these signs are related to breathing.

 

1. Constriction of airways takes place due to carbon dioxide deficiency in the lungs since CO2, according to numerous medical papers, is a potent bronchodilator.

 

2. Modern Individuals suppose that big or heavy breathing (hyperventilation) can boost oxygen index in the body. However, several hundreds of physiological publications have positively confirmed that over-breathing DIMINISHES cells oxygen content due to hypocapnic (deficiency of CO2) vasoconstriction of blood vessels and the lowered Bohr effect. Body hypoxia, through hypoxia-inducible factor alpha-1, promotes inflammation that is a next known and essential parameter in asthma.

 

3. Tissues hypoxia creates free radicals that suppress the immune system that, in its turn, causes excessive sputum production.

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