Asthma and Diving
// May 30th, 2010 // No Comments » // Medical
In the past, a history of asthma has been considered by many doctors to be an absolute contraindication to diving. Even the individual who “grew out” of his asthma was precluded from diving “unless equipped to carry his own recompression chamber wherever he goes,” the 1984 edition of The Physician’s Guide to Diving Medicine firmly states. This has been the position of the Diver’s Alert Network (DAN) because of the fear that asthmatics are more prone to air trapping and, thus, arterial gas embolism (AGE).
