asthma

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My son is taking large amounts of vitamin C and that has helped a lot. I

know there are other things he should be taking but don't know what. He also

suffers from winter asthma but his doctor called it COPD.

 

 

 

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>>>>>>>>>>>I'd like to know more about any one's asthma results and medications.

Tony<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

 

I have had asthma, and have been on nebulizer treatments for almost 20 years.

 

2 years ago, I gave up red meat and dairy foods, just a little chicken or fish

occasionally. I have not had an asthma attack now for 14 months!

 

dairy products feed mucus, create more mucus. It takes a few months to see

results, but this definately works for me. I only experience occasional

wheesing, nothing requiring a rescue inhaler, and I put the nebulizer in the

attic!

 

windflower

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What I found studying on asthma was B-6, B-12 and magnesium the most

frequently recommended. A lot of studies have found these nutrients often

to be at low levels in asthmatics. Arginine is also found to be abnormally

low but DO NOT SUPPLEMENT to an asthmatic - supplementation can cause

attacks. Eat meat/eggs instead. For my daughter we cut the medication and

went to a good multivitamin with B-6 and B-12 and then extra magnesium.

I've since added coenzyme Q-10 for an antioxidant. She also quit drinking

milk. Food allergies can frequently trigger an attack - that is the only

one she was able to identify. We also went to a low carb/high protein fat

diet. I pushed sports when she was young to help develop lung capacity and

she turned into serious soccer player. She nows only uses albuteral inhaler

on very rare occassion - the attacks are usually exercise induced.

 

Horehound is an herb commonly used for asthma - I just recently came across

it and not yet researched it so I can't say much else about it right now.

 

For parents of asthmatic children, there is a group I like. It is not as

much alternative but that does come up as well as many other issues common

for asthmatic children. They are currently fighting to change state laws

that do not allow kids to carry their medications on them at school.

http://www.aanma.org/ They also suggest avoiding foods with sulfites. Some

of those include baked goods, soup mixes, jams, canned vegetables, pickled

foods, gravies, dried fruit, potato chips, trail mix, beer and wine,

vegetable juices, bottled lemon and lime juices, tea, condiments, molasses,

fresh or frozen shrimp, guacamole, maraschino cherreis, dehydrated, precut

or peeled potatoes.

 

I also like the following site, somewhere in there is a list of common foods

to avoid but I cannot find it right now.

http://allergies.about.com/library/weekly/

 

Mary

 

 

deborahcsr [deborahcsr]

Thursday, November 20, 2003 5:03 PM

 

Re: asthma

 

 

My son is taking large amounts of vitamin C and that has helped a lot. I

know there are other things he should be taking but don't know what. He

also

suffers from winter asthma but his doctor called it COPD.