First, bad food and bad habits for asthma
1, avoid too sweet, too salty, too spicy or cold food:
Asthmatics usually have the experience of eating salty, too sweet or spicy food to induce cough and asthma. Modern medical research has confirmed that high sodium diet can increase the airway responsiveness of asthma patients. Hypertonic saline sentence bronchial provocation test is also commonly used in clinic to diagnose asthma. Hypertonic saline can significantly increase the airway responsiveness of asthma patients, so asthma patients should eat lightly. The same is true for foods that are too sweet. Excessive spicy foods include pepper, mustard, horseradish, pepper, garlic, vinegar, white wine or some condiments (pepper noodles, pepper noodles), and the irritating smell volatilized from these spicy foods can easily lead to acute asthma attacks. Cold food such as cold drinks, ice cream and food just taken out of the refrigerator can also induce asthma, especially patients with cold asthma must pay attention to avoid cold or cold food. Eating some raw fruits such as peaches, mangoes or some nuts can also induce allergic asthma.
2. Avoid allergic food:
Acute asthma attacks are often related to certain food allergies, and avoiding such foods is often the simplest and most effective way to avoid asthma attacks. Doctors should guide patients to make a diet plan, which can not only avoid food containing allergens, but also get enough nutrition. For asthma attacks suspected to be caused by food allergy (especially asthma attacks after meals or at night), doctors should check food allergens for patients (IgE should be checked, not IgG) in order to determine the types of food allergens. After taking targeted foods to avoid allergies, the probability of food-induced allergic asthma can be reduced.
In asthmatic children with eczema, milk and eggs are often the main allergens, so once diagnosed, all dairy products or egg products, including milk tablets, cream bread, toffee, cakes and other milk products or egg products, should be fasted. Patients who are allergic to soybeans often have allergic reactions to other kinds of beans, such as broad beans and green beans. Therefore, if they are allergic to one kind of beans, they should avoid eating other beans. Patients who are allergic to mold should avoid eating fungus, mushrooms, pine nuts and so on.
Seafood (including shrimp, crab, squid, fish, shellfish and mussels) is one of the main foods that induce asthma. Because many seafood are rich in histidine, this kind of heterosexual protein can release a lot of histamine (allergic substances) when it is stored in the refrigerator for a long time or not, thus causing allergic asthma and cough. According to our investigation and analysis of the relationship between the food that more than 0/000 asthmatic children usually eat and the asthma attack, it is found that more than 60% asthmatic children have had asthma because of eating some different seafood or aquatic products, so all parents or patients of asthmatic children should pay attention to the relationship between eating fish, shrimp, crab, seafood or aquatic products and the time of asthma attack. Asthma patients should try to avoid frozen or stale seafood.
In addition, some asthma patients can also be allergic to buckwheat noodles or flour.
The European Commission has recently formulated a regulation on revising the food ingredient specification, pointing out that all foods containing ingredients that may cause allergic reactions or other discomfort, that is, gluten-containing grains, eggs, milk, peanuts, soybeans, sesame seeds, seafood (fish, shellfish), crustaceans (shrimps, crabs, etc.) and fruits with skins, should be indicated in the specification. Asthma patients should pay attention to reading the instructions when buying packaged food to avoid eating food containing allergic ingredients by mistake.
3. Control the oil intake.
Greasy food can increase airway responsiveness, and asthma patients often complain that eating greasy food will lead to excessive phlegm or chest tightness, so the intake of oil should be properly controlled. Studies have confirmed that lipid substances can affect the gas exchange of asthma patients.
4. It is not advisable to eat too much food with high protein content.
High-protein foods are common allergens that induce allergies, so patients with allergic asthma should be careful when eating a large number of high-protein foods (such as seafood, milk, eggs and meat), and it is easy to cause allergies or asthma attacks after peptone that has not been decomposed in the intestine is absorbed into the blood.
Step 5 eat too much
The mechanical oppression of overeating diet leads to the increase of diaphragm and the decrease of lung capacity, which can also aggravate the dyspnea of asthma, so asthma patients should pay attention to avoid overeating. Because gastroesophageal reflux can also lead to asthma attacks at night, and drinking alcohol, being full, foods rich in lipids and drinking too much water before going to bed can all lead to gastroesophageal reflux, so asthma patients should pay attention to avoiding the above factors. Food additives (such as preservatives, thickeners, food dyes, preservatives, monosodium glutamate) can sometimes induce asthma and should be avoided as much as possible.
Second, food beneficial to asthma
1. Allergic probiotic drinks:
In addition to the application of antiallergic drugs, the regulation of immune function by new antiallergic lactic acid bacteria Kangminyuan has been paid more and more attention. The new antiallergic probiotics include Lactobacillus salivarius PM-A0006, Lactobacillus Grignard PM-A0005, Lactobacillus yoelii PM-A0009 and lactobacillus paracasei LP, etc. Besides acting on intestine, oral administration of Kangminyuan can regulate the immune response of lung. For example, Lactobacillus salivarius PM-A0006 can significantly reduce the concentration of eosinophils in the respiratory tract and the content of IgE-specific antibodies in serum. In addition, Lactobacillus salivarius PM-A0006 can also reduce the occurrence of allergic reactions in the respiratory tract.
Among the probiotic effects of many lactic acid bacteria, the anti-allergic probiotic strains contained in Kangminyuan anti-allergic probiotics have been widely studied for their immunoregulation and anti-allergic effects. The research report of the above-mentioned patented anti-allergic lactic acid bacteria strains points out that Kangminyuan active anti-allergic probiotics living in the gastrointestinal tract of the host can enhance the TH 1 type immune response to regulate the TH2 type immune response that is overreacted due to allergies, and enhance the anti-allergic ability, thus becoming a new way for non-drug anti-allergic asthma.
2. Vegetables:
Many vegetables such as cabbage, red cabbage, potatoes and shepherd's purse have certain antiallergic effects, so they are beneficial to asthma. In recent years, it has been found that mushrooms also have anti-asthma function, and at least 50 potential components have been extracted from them, which can be eaten by patients who are not allergic to mold. Soutar et al. found that when the vitamin intake is reduced, the airway responsiveness can be increased by five times, and the reduction of antioxidants in diet can increase the incidence of asthma. Therefore, it is beneficial for asthma or allergic patients or children to eat fresh vegetables regularly. The study also found that vitamin is an important local antioxidant in airway surface fluid, which can antagonize the effect of nitric oxide. Supplementing antioxidants such as vitamin E and vitamin C can alleviate asthma symptoms, especially in children.