Asthma and cold air

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Like so many people I know, we're trying to save on our energy bills at the moment and haven't been using the heating much at all. Now it's turned a bit colder, Im finding the cold air in the house is triggering my asthma. Im thinking of heating one room and spending most of my time in there, but im interested to see if anyone any other tips on surviving the cold with asthma without bankrupting myself on my gas bill!

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make sure your asthma is very well under control, taking your preventative medication every day

if you can keep the rooms at a temperature over 16 in the daytime it would be better, but I don’t know your finances

Oh now, this was my experience: wearing a facecovering (those paper ones) last winter meant no jolt/trigger from warm supermarket to cold cold car park.
Did you notice the same? Might be worth thinking about how to warm the air before it hits your chest, so to speak.

PS this cost of living crisis where conditions like asthma are triggered from scary heating costs is enraging. So sorry.

I think with asthma you need to be very careful. Are you unable to afford the heating or trying to minimise through choice? Standard advice for asthma in cold air is wear a scarf over your mouth - agree a mask might help. But you should really prioritise your health if able to

Absolutely keep up with your preventer inhaler. And keeping warm is so important as you are more likely to get a chest infection, so warming one room and your bedroom would be good.

Humidity can matter as much as air temperature.

We had an awful time with DS's asthma over the summer/ autumn because of the humidity levels, and he couldn't cope with the abrupt changes of walking from outside into a shop with aircon/ chillers. It's taken a few medication upgrades to control it and two ambulances in a week

Traditionally it was this time of the year when the damp chill sets in that his asthma noticed.

We've had heating on for an hour each morning since October to help try and keep it controlled as there was a phase where just opening the front door for school would trigger it. That's stopped the whole house from cooling too far. We are now having to add boosts of heat in, but it's not from a completely chilled level.
He's fine at night... he likes sleeping in blanket dens!