The Book of Breathing

An Overview of Airway Disease

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Asthma Center

Author S. J.Gislason MD

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Asthma is a prototype of airway disease, often associated with nose and throat symptoms. Asthma sometimes merges with chronic lung disease that involves both inflammatory changes in bronchi and inflammatory changes in alveoli that involve scarring and loss of gas exchange capacity.

Asthma is increasing world-wide and higher numbers of deaths from asthma in affluent countries worry authorities. The Center for Disease Control in Canada reported a threefold increase of asthmatic deaths over 20 years, mostly in teenagers and young adults. In the US, according to the National Institutes of Health 12.4 million people suffer from asthma; 6.2 billion dollars is spent per year on health care costs.  We take an approach to asthma that can be applied to all airway disease.

In our search for causes of lung diseases, we start with a simple algorithm:

1. the cause is allergy until proven otherwise.
2. allergy comes from airborne and food sources.
3. solve airborne disease by improving air quality and doing diet revision.

In the past, medical textbooks divided asthma into inside and outside forms:

1. Extrinsic (outside) asthma tended to occur in sudden attacks triggered by exposure to airborne materials.
2. Intrinsic (inside) asthma tended to occur continuously or in prolonged episodes for no apparent reason.
    

This distinction is rather old-fashioned but it points to the existence of   different patterns of asthma and hints that there are different causes. As asthma becomes a chronic disease, it blends into or is confused with other lung conditions and diagnosis and treatment becomes more difficult. The three basic treatment choices are:

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

The printed text is $22.95 plus shipping. 113 pages with Abstracts. Rev. 2004

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The Book of  Breathing is often used with the Alpha Nutrition Program to resolve food-related lung disease. The program is modular and versatile and can be adapted to a variety of disease conditions where diet and nutrition play a role. This text provides background knowledge, helpful in understanding allergic respiratory disease, the association with delayed pattern food allergy and the relevance of diet revision.

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