Diet therapy for asthma patients Asthma is a common disease of the respiratory system, the highest incidence in winter and spring. People suffering from this disease in addition to hospital treatment, but also from the diet to regulate. As most asthma patients have poor physique and emaciation, they should be supplemented with enough protein, such as: lean meat, eggs, milk, soybeans and soybean products, but they should eat less food such as shrimps, crabs, salted fish, milk, etc., in order to prevent allergies. At the same time, asthma calorie consumption, so the diet should be supplemented with more calories, such as rice, noodles and so on. Patients should also pay attention to eat more food containing more vitamins and minerals to enhance resistance. Asthmatics can also take the following therapeutic prescriptions: 1, frosted white radish in moderation, water fried instead of tea, can cure asthma, cough. 2, earthworms. Earthworms can be dry roasted and finely powdered, packed into capsules to take. Served 3 grams per day, 2 to 3 times a day, has a certain effect on bronchial asthma. 3, pepper eye, that is, the seeds of pepper, asthma, swelling. Pepper eyes research into fine powder, into the capsule, 0.4 grams per capsule. Each time you take 6 to 8 capsules, 2 to 3 times a day, 3 to 7 days for a course of treatment, bronchial asthma has a certain effect. 4, ginkgo is suitable for asthma phlegm. Daily dosage of 3 to 9 grams or 5 to 10, boiled, fried, into the decoction can be. This product should not be taken in excess, not to mention raw food, otherwise it will produce toxicity. ================================= Dietary principles for asthmatic children I. Three appropriate nutrition, correct malnutrition asthmatic children benefit from supplementation of adequate protein, carbohydrates and appropriate fat. Due to respiratory distress, resulting in hypoxia, can be a series of effects on the body systems and their material metabolism, hypoxia slows down gastrointestinal peristalsis, digestive attraction is weakened; energy synthesis is affected, the child's activities, gastrointestinal and various muscular tissues to reduce the flow of blood, both of which will cause children to loss of appetite, eating less, resulting in more obvious than adult patients malnutrition. Asthmatic children should be supplemented with enough high-quality protein to meet the needs of inflammation repair and nutritional supplementation. Carbohydrates can add enough calories, but should avoid overeating gas-producing foods, such as pasta, beans and potatoes. Fat supply should not be high, because eating too much fat, affecting appetite and gastrointestinal digestion and absorption, is not favorable to the condition, mainly to eat vegetable oil-based. Second, increase the supply of vitamin a, b, c and iron, calcium Vitamin a has the function of maintaining the normal development of the human body and enhance the body's ability to resist disease. Vitamin b, c is involved in a variety of metabolism of important substances, and increase appetite, promote the role of lung inflammation absorption. Calcium, in addition to promoting growth and development, also has the function of anti-allergy, etc. In addition, the body in order to maintain the normal development of the human body and enhance the body's ability to resist disease. In addition, the body in order to improve the uptake of oxygen from asthma hypoxia, in order to reduce tissue hypoxia, there will be a compensatory iron deficiency, supplementation must be increased accordingly. Third, drink more water asthma attack, especially when a serious attack, lung hyperventilation, open-mouth breathing, sweating, less diet, often make children lose water. It is very important for asthmatic children to drink a lot of water, not only to replenish the water loss, but also to dilute the phlegm in favor of the discharge of viscous phlegm. Fourth, the three appropriate three taboos Diet should be warm, should be light, should be a small number of meals; avoid too cold, avoid too hot, avoid too sweet, avoid too salty and stimulating food, avoid oversatiety. Asthma children with weak spleen and stomach, too much cold food will cause gastrointestinal motility slow down, can lead to indigestion, loss of appetite, so that the child's physical decline, asthma recovery is not conducive. Too hot and too hot diet can cause paroxysmal cough, and even trigger asthma, should be noted and avoided. Too sweet and stimulating food can trigger asthma is well known. Eating salty also cause asthma has been confirmed by epidemiological investigations: the development of asthma and primary hypertension, as with high salt intake. The essence of asthma is chronic non-specific inflammation of the airways, the latter is the main cause of airway hyperresponsiveness, and high salt intake just so that asthma children's bronchial smooth muscle, allergen stimulus to produce a strong reaction, aggravate airway hyperresponsiveness, must increase the dose of medication, in order to play a role in controlling asthma, asthma children should be used to low-salt cleaning diet. Asthma children eat too much, not only to increase the gastrointestinal load is not conducive to digestion and absorption, but also to increase abdominal pressure, also easy to trigger an asthma attack, so asthma children should use a small amount of meals eating system. ========================================== asthma should pay attention to in the dietary management of asthma patients are required to eat warm, light, rich in nutrients and vitamins, avoid eating fatty, fishy and spicy, stimulating and easy to produce gas food. Asthma patients should especially change the habitual dietary practices that are not conducive to recovery, the precautions are as follows: 1, the diet should be light, avoid fatty. Some patients like dietary fat, a day without meat can not, this diet should be changed. 2, the diet should be warm, avoid too cold, too hot. Asthma patients, especially children, elderly patients, the body has been weak, the spleen and stomach function is weak, eat cold and cold food, will cause gastrointestinal peristalsis slow down, can lead to indigestion, loss of appetite, so that the patient's physical decline, asthma recovery is not favorable. In addition, vegetables and fruits are mostly cold food, some people tend to eat more asthma aggravation or attack, which is a contradiction with asthma patients should eat more vegetables and fruits. The solution to this contradiction is: in the process of cooking vegetables, add some ginger, pepper and other hot food, or with beef, lean pork, pork ribs and other warm food **** cooking, you can overcome this drawback. Avoid overheating (or hot) diet, especially patients swallowing food, can cause paroxysmal coughing, thus triggering asthma, you should pay attention. 3, the diet should be a small number of meals, chewing slowly, should not be too full. Repeated asthma attacks, due to the lack of oxygen, so that the gastrointestinal function is weakened, a small number of meals can reduce the burden on the stomach and intestines, chewing and swallowing is conducive to digestion and absorption. As the saying goes, "Eat and leave a mouthful, live to ninety-nine." Normal people eat too much, but also harmful, not to mention the patient! Asthma patients eat too much, one is not conducive to digestion and absorption, increase the gastrointestinal load; the second is to increase abdominal pressure, easy to trigger asthma attacks. Therefore, asthma patients should not eat too much, but should take a small number of meals eating habits. 4, dietary taboos too sweet, too salty. Chinese medicine said "sweet asthma", "salty asthma", is caused by eating too sweet, salty food. Clinically, there are children's parents reflect: "the child's first asthma attack is due to eat too sweet, salty food caused." Sweet and salty food can generate phlegm heat, too sweet and salty food may not only trigger asthma attacks, but also can trigger asthma. Therefore, asthma patients should eat less sweet and over-sweet food; eat less salty and over-salty food. Salted vegetables, pickles, salted dried bamboo shoots, salted meat and other products should be eaten as little as possible or not eat, because of the salt content of these foods. 5, do not drink cold drinks and artificially prepared aerated drinks. Ice-cream, ice bricks, ice lollies, Coke, Sprite and other cold drinks and aerated drinks, the most popular summer children. Cold food is contraindicated in patients with asthma, as mentioned before. Although it is difficult to control the use of cold drinks in children with asthma, they should still be firmly persuaded not to drink them. Because once you drink a cold drink is easy to trigger asthma. Some artificial preparation of gas-containing beverages, most of them contain saccharin, flavoring, coloring and other ingredients, harmful to the human body; secondly, the carbon dioxide gas contained in the lungs is not good. So asthma patients, should not drink gas-containing beverages, including soda, beer and so on. 6, avoid eating stimulating food and gas-producing food. Irritating foods are chili peppers, peppercorns, fennel, mustard, curry powder, coffee, strong tea, etc., too much of these foods, may trigger asthma, so should try not to use. Gas-producing foods are groundnuts, cold potatoes, potatoes, leeks, soybeans, pasta and so on. They enter the body, in the digestive process will produce a large amount of gas, before discharge, so that the abdominal distension, diaphragm upward, the chest cavity is narrowed, the lung ventilation is unfavorable, but also can induce asthma, so asthma patients should not take gas-producing food. 7, avoid smoking, drinking. Smoking can induce asthma, has been previously mentioned. Drinking sweet wine, strong liquor and liquor, can help fire phlegm, are not favorable to asthma. Article source: Original article link: /jkcs/273224901.html