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.
by scubabasics, on October 29 2009 @ 11:08 am
This article is realy helpful and informative, not only for the scuba divers but for all of us.I realy looking for such kind of information.Will you post some more useful details in your post in the future.
by scubabasics, on October 31 2009 @ 9:00 am
Its realy a good news that now onwords the peoples suffering from asthma, controlled diabetes and other diseases can proceed with the scuba diving adventures. In your next article can you please include the details with other common diseases also, it will be a great help for me and for others also.