Alpha Nutrition Health Education

Asthma - Introduction

Airborne Asthma

Food Allergy & Asthma

Asthma Attacks

Chronic Asthma

Asthma Rescue

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Anaphylaxis

Drug Treatments

Asthma in Children

While there are patients who just have hay fever and occasional asthma attacks as discrete events and are healthy between pollen or other allergen exposures there is larger group of patients who develop more chronic symptoms. Coughing, shortness of breath and wheezing may occur everyday or most days. Often several medications on a regular schedule are required everyday.  With continued antigenic exposure a chronic cell-mediated inflammation takes over. The chronic state is more difficult to characterize and understand. Persistent and recurrent symptoms that require daily medication are suggestive of delayed pattern food allergy. We encourage everyone with chronic or frequently recurrent asthma to try diet revision.

An asthmatic with immediate hypersensitivity typically experiences an acute wheezing attack within minutes of exposure to an airborne of allergen. This initial attack is followed by remission for a few hours, but then dyspnea returns. The second or late phase is associated with bronchiolar inflammation, airway obstruction, not responsive to bronchodilators and a more prolonged and serious threat to respiration ensues. The variable delay of absorption of food antigens and the biphasic asthma response to discrete antigen challenge makes for a confusing variability in the timing of symptom-sequences following food ingestion. Further confusion arises when antigen challenge comes from food eaten everyday and acute responses overly chronic inflammatory activity in a complex and variable system of symptom production.

Bronchitis

Bronchitis is an inflammation of the bronchi, the large airways inside the lungs with increased mucus production and cough. Bronchitis can be caused by infections, food allergy, or by exposure to airborne allergens and irritants such as dust, fumes, or cigarette smoke. If caused by a virus, the bronchitis will likely be only temporary. If the exposure to irritants is persistent, then permanent damage to the bronchi, bronchitis may occur. Delayed pattern food allergy can cause chronic bronchitis with cough that is quite mysterious - no-one can guess the cause or identify the cause with tests. Only a trial of diet revision reveals the food cause. Cow's milk allergy is the most common cause of chronic bronchitis ( does not show up on skin tests).

Treatment Strategy

The three basic treatment  choices are:

1. Remove the Cause of Asthma
2. Treat the symptoms
3. Alter the host to be more tolerate of the causes

Remove the original cause.

Consider asthma to be an allergic disease and look at the air and food supplies for the triggers of asthma. Here is a simple problem-solving approach. If asthmatic; then

1. Stop all smoking and association with smokers
2. Stop all use of volatile chemicals
3. If attacks of asthma are intermittent and related to airborne exposures then avoid the exposure or wear air-purifying filters when exposed and/or use preventive medications
4. If asthma attacks are seasonal and related to plant cycles, then get allergy tests and consider using preventive medication. If pollen allergy is the main and only cause of asthma, consider immunotherapy.
5. If asthma is chronic and tends to occur in all seasons and is not related to airborne exposure, then consider delayed pattern food allergy as the cause and do diet revision using the  Alpha Nutrition Program.

How to Use the Alpha Nutrition Program

Self -Help: The diet revision program is explained in enough detail in the Alpha Nutrition Manual  that an intelligent, well-motivated person can follow the steps outlined. A parent can modify the diet of his or her child to alleviate chronic asthma. Diet revision is an experiment, not a guaranteed cure. The hypothesis is that your "normal" diet is causing or contributing to your child's symptoms. The experiment is to retreat to a low allergy diet and/or take a food holiday diet to find out if he or she improves.

The good news is that your child may benefit greatly by the effort you make. We recommend the slow track for all prolonged and serious symptoms. This means that you follow the rules in  Phase 1 of the program exactly. You are trying to establish improvement quickly - at least within the first 10 days.

Consider ordering the Asthma Rescue Starter Pack . You will receive the Alpha Nutrition Program Manual and a 500 Gram bottle of Alpha ENF, try it,  find out is your child will accept the  formula  in juice so that his or her nutrition can be safely supplemented. Then decide if and when you are ready to begin. You can order the starter pack with an eMail support option so that you can correspond with a tutor and have help getting started.