How many footballers/hurlers do we have here who have asthma? simply out of boredom/curiosity

fuppin (Tyrone) - Posts: 567 - 05/09/2009 16:30:38    416422

Peter (The Great) Canavan has asthma but I'm sure you know that.

CoTyrone (Tyrone) - Posts: 261 - 05/09/2009 18:25:29    416466

Not sure about some gaelic players but Paul Scholes has asthma!

cavanforsam (Cavan) - Posts: 143 - 05/09/2009 19:41:42    416491

i was a chronic asmathic for many years

jailhouse.usa (Galway) - Posts: 1155 - 05/09/2009 21:34:08    416547

I would predict that if one only looked at those playing competitive sport there is a higher percentage of asthma sufferers than there is amongst the wider population.

ruanua (Donegal) - Posts: 4966 - 06/09/2009 01:00:27    416742

aidan o mahony has been an asmathic from birth , word is its getting worse hes finding it hard to breadth so hes finding it difficult to make the kerry team

kerryblue (Kerry) - Posts: 239 - 06/09/2009 02:17:33    416755

Former Meath great Tommy Dowd was one who springs to mind. I can recall seeing Tommy regularly take a few puffs of an inhaler during games.

Another player I saw taken an inhaler only last weekend was Monaghan all-star Tommy Freeman I never would have know that Tommy had respiratory problems.

I myself have had asthma for well over forty years from childhood in fact. I would have always taken inhalers but never would do it as openly as some people do it today I don't know why that is maybe I don't want others to know that I am an asthmatic.

BartleDoo (Monaghan) - Posts: 389 - 06/09/2009 11:29:16    416856

Ive asthma, not sure its bad enough to hinder me but then ive not known a life without asthma so how would i know.
If i get a soaking and dont get dried in the hour you can beat your life in 3 days il be coughing and wheezing!

bosch (Derry) - Posts: 873 - 08/09/2009 09:50:52    418930

bosch
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418930 Ive asthma, not sure its bad enough to hinder me but then ive not known a life without asthma so how would i know.
If i get a soaking and dont get dried in the hour you can beat your life in 3 days il be coughing and wheezing!

That sums up pretty much what i was goin to write.

ConnollyDub (Dublin) - Posts: 2007 - 08/09/2009 10:43:56    418978

I have asthma and had it worse as a kid, generally just leave an inhaler with someone i know at the game and thankfully I dont seem to need it of late, but no harm to have it there.

Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 08/09/2009 13:27:35    419182

ConnollyDub are you ever tempted to take your brown inhaler (preventer) all the time and see if it helps the fitness?
At the moment i dont take any except when the chest is wheezy after a cold but ive always wondered have i been going around for years with the airways closed over slightly cos i never take the inhaler all the time?

bosch (Derry) - Posts: 873 - 08/09/2009 13:27:57    419183

Tommy Griifin from Kerry has it and activley promotes Asthma Control Month http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=10147

Farney (Monaghan) - Posts: 814 - 08/09/2009 13:42:49    419204

No i havent been tempted before but maybe i should Bosch. Never thought of it really. Maybe because my asthma isnt very bad anyway. the only time i take an inhaler is when im sick or i have a cold. I take the purple one then. That really does the job! otherwise my asthma is non exsistent really. had it real bad as a kid tho.

ConnollyDub (Dublin) - Posts: 2007 - 08/09/2009 13:51:02    419212

I've had asthma since birth and i often take a puff of the inhaler before a game even if im not suffering at the time, cant hurt realy and might open up the airways.

gaaman321 (Kildare) - Posts: 25 - 08/09/2009 15:04:49    419338

I'd use the blue one when Im feeling wheezy but usually not a problem. only noticed one other adult player at the club using one

Suas Sios (None) - Posts: 1558 - 08/09/2009 16:14:59    419453

i also have asthema and have just taken up hurling and football in pub teams, so nothing special what so ever! but i find it really sets of when im playing i havn't played much sport in my time so you could say im not the fittest of lads, i thought about this and would like to have others comment! sounds funny but i recently have started going to yoga classes (and i think it helps alot) they have been teaching me to calm my breathing. so i find when the attacks come i start trying to get as much air in as possible, but after doing yoga for a couple of weeks realised, how about trying to not exert myself so much and when my chest tightens try to slow my breathing! it feels horrible at first (and i do this only through my nose, not mouth, lots snot haha!) but after a few minutes find my chest loosens and im able to carry on playing. as im playin try to keep only breathing through my nose as long as possible and i find this really helps me get through the game give it a shot! id like one to be able to breathe through my nose the whole game.
oh yea take some tissues and blow your nose first. especially if the ladies are present! :)

LBwilliam (UK) - Posts: 1 - 21/06/2013 09:52:34    1412008

All-Ireland winning capt Bryan Cullen!

realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8756 - 21/06/2013 13:30:29    1412229

Myself , and funnily enough the medication prescribed would most likely get me a ban had i been good enough to be tested ha ha

Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 21/06/2013 14:07:09    1412282

Three or four of our starting 15 at the club would be asthmatic and have the inhalers on standby each matchday.

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9773 - 21/06/2013 14:25:20    1412308

I have mild asthma, luckily only once had a bit of an attack training one evening. I always take a blast of it before going out on the field. If I don't take it I find training games a lot tougher

Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 21/06/2013 15:54:21    1412405