Asthma Diet
Maintaining healthy and balanced diet is very important for every one to lead a healthy life.
Especially for asthma patients, it is very important to consume healthy and nutritious food.
Salt Consumption & Asthma Control
New research from The University of Nottingham suggests that reducing salt consumption does not appear to have any appreciable impact on asthma control.
The study contradicts previous studies that have suggested a link between low-sodium diets and improved asthma control.
Don’t panic and make any dramatic changes in your diet based on this study, stresses Neil Schachter, MD, medical director of respiratory care at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
Carbohydrates, Fats And Proteins
The patient should avoid common dietetic errors. Ideally, his diet should contain a limited quantity of carbohydrates, fats and proteins which are ‘acid-forming’ foods, and a liberal quantity of alkali-forming foods consisting of fresh fruits, green vegetables, sprouted seeds, and grains. The patient should avoid foods which tend to produce phlegm, such as rice, sugar, lentils, and yoghurt. He should also avoid fried and other difficult to-digest foods, strong tea, coffee, alcoholic beverages, condiments pickles, sauces and all refined and processed foods.
Allopathic remedies have not been able to find a cure for Asthma. Though there are drugs and vaccines available in the market they are limited in their prowess and can only relieve the sufferer of the symptoms not the key cause. Asthmatic patients also turn to these drugs and vaccines for temporary relief and dependence on these drugs make the consumption a habit and the dosage needs with continuous usage has to be increased from time to time to get the same amount of relief.
Vitamin C & Asthma
According to researchers at the Pediatric Ambulatory Clinic, Rabin Medical centre, Vitamin C offers a protective effect for asthma sufferers who experience exercise-induced hyperactive airways.
Dutch research has shown that people who ate the most fruit and vegetables had the healthiest lung function. Vitamin C and E are also believed to help reduce the severity of the inflammatory response in the lungs of people with asthma. A diet that includes a high level of nutrients can also boost the immune system and help ward off colds and flu – both common asthma triggers.
