The Effects of Daily Bathing on the Symptoms of the Patients with Bronchial Asthma
- Conditions
- bronchial asthma
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000015641
- Lead Sponsor
- ational Hospital Organization Disaster Medical Center
- Brief Summary
Results: Two hundred and fifteen cases were recruited. Sixty cases (27.9%) experienced the appearance of the asthmatic symptom. The extent of the symptoms included 20 cases of chest discomfort (33.3%), 19 cases of cough (31.7%), and 21 cases of wheezing (35.0%). The triggering factors included vapor inhalation (32 cases, 53.3%), hydrostatic pressure on the thorax due to body immersion in the bathtub (26 cases, 43.3%), followed by sudden change of the air temperature (16 cases, 26.7%). Thirty-eight cases (17.7%) experienced the improvement of their active asthmatic symptoms by bathing. The vapor inhalation was the most common contributing factor (34 cases, 89.5%), followed by warming whole body (13 cases, 34.2%). There were no relationship between asthma severity and the appearance of the bathing-induced symptoms or improvement of active asthmatic symptoms by bathing.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 250
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Those who cannot answer or denied to answer the quetionnarie.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Frequency of exacerbation, improvement of asthmatic symptoms by bathing.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Frequency of paradoxycal bronchoconstriction in exacerbation group, impvoved group, and no change group of asthmatic symptoms by bathing.