Hayfever Season
submitted for The Blue Mountains Gazette, Wednesday, September 19, 2001
Spring is here with its gorgeous blossoms & warmer, drier air. Unfortunately those beautiful blossoms have pollens that trigger many allergies, hayfever & asthma attacks. Triggered by pollens etc., these conditions are symptoms of the one dysfunction – OVERBREATHING.
If you can hear yourself breathe, breathe through your mouth (during exercise as well), cough, sigh, yawn, wheeze or snore, get short of breath, blow your nose, feel your upper chest move or breathe more than 14 times a minute then you overbreathe. Asthma, hayfever, other respiratory disorders, snoring & chronic mouth breathing & chronic cough are all common in people who breathe more than the physiological normal amount of 4-6 litres of air per minute at rest.
The Buteyko Institute Method of Breathing corrects the problem of over breathing by using specific breathing exercises & correct use of diaphragm to reduce the breathing rate & volume to normal and to restore the carbon dioxide level to normal. This resets the involuntary breathing pattern to the correct level.
The exercises are effective for children and adults. They benefit people with all types and degrees of severity of asthma, snoring, sleep apnoea, hyperventilation, panic attacks and other respiratory disorders and for those who want to improve their performance in sport, dance and singing.
Buteyko Breathing classes are now available for adults at Leura Village Fitness Centre and for children at Hazelbrook Public School. The courses are for ten weeks with a one hour lesson per week.
You learn to breathe correctly when speaking, eating, exercising and performing all daily activities. Phone Jennifer Harris practitioner/member of the Buteyko Institute of Breathing & Health on 0414 833 857.