Watersports blog

A recently concluded research showed that patients with asthma, controlled diabetes and other diseases can proceed with their scuba diving plans since this activity is deemed safe and not dangerous to health at all.

According to the researchers that participated at the Dive Medicine Symposium at the Rutgers University, there’s no evidence that can suggest that patients with diabetes or asthma are at serious risk should they decide to go on scuba diving adventure or going underwater for that matter.

University of Pennsylvania fellow in undersea and hyperbaric medicine Dr. Michael Madsen said that they weren’t able to discover serious effects caused by scuba diving to patients. This can also apply to asthmatic patients who were first believed to be at risk of decompression sickness but there were no concrete evidences to support this.

This is certainly great news for patients who are longing for this kind of adventure.