Because most asthma patients are physically weak and emaciated, they should supplement enough protein, such as lean meat, eggs, milk, soybeans, bean products, etc., but should eat less shrimp, crab, salted fish, milk and other foods to prevent allergies. At the same time, asthma consumes a lot of calories, so it is necessary to add more calories in the diet, such as rice and noodles. Patients should also pay attention to eating more foods containing vitamins and minerals to enhance their resistance.
Precautions are as follows:
1, diet should be light, avoid fatty. Some patients like to eat greasy food. They can't eat meat all day. This eating habit should be changed.
2, the diet should be warm, avoid too cold and too hot. Asthma patients, especially children and elderly patients, have weak spleen and stomach function. Eating cold and uncooked food will slow down gastrointestinal peristalsis, lead to indigestion, loss of appetite, and make patients' physique decline, which is not conducive to asthma rehabilitation. In addition, vegetables and fruits are mostly cold food. If someone eats too much, it will often aggravate or attack asthma, which is contradictory to the fact that asthma patients should eat more fruits and vegetables. The solution to this contradiction is: in the process of cooking vegetables, add some spicy foods, such as ginger and pepper, or cook with warm foods such as beef, lean pork and ribs, which can overcome this drawback. Avoid overheating (or hot) diet, especially if the patient wolfs down the food, which can cause paroxysmal cough and thus induce asthma, so we should pay attention to it.
3, the diet should be a small amount of meals, chew slowly, not too full. Asthma recurs because of lack of oxygen in the body, which weakens gastrointestinal function. A small amount of meals can reduce the burden on the stomach, and chewing slowly is beneficial to digestion and absorption. As the saying goes, "Take one bite and live to be ninety-nine." Normal people eat too much, which is also harmful, not to mention patients! Asthma patients eat too much, which is not conducive to digestion and absorption and increases gastrointestinal load; The second is to increase abdominal pressure, which is easy to induce asthma attacks. Therefore, asthma patients should not eat too much, but should use a small number of meals.
4. The diet is too sweet and salty. What Chinese medicine calls "sweet wheezing" and "salty wheezing" are all caused by eating too sweet and salty food. Clinically, some parents of children also reported: "The child's first asthma attack was due to eating sweet and salty food." Sweet food and salty food can produce phlegm heat. Too sweet and salty food may not only induce asthma attacks, but also cause asthma. Therefore, asthma patients should eat less sweets and too sweet food; Eat less salty and salty food. Pickled vegetables, pickles, dried bamboo shoots, bacon and other products should be eaten as little as possible or not, because these foods have a large salt content.
5. Do not drink cold drinks and artificially prepared carbonated drinks. Cold drinks and carbonated drinks such as ice cream, ice bricks, popsicles, cola and sprite are most popular with children in summer. As mentioned earlier, asthma patients should not eat cold food. Although it is difficult to control the use of cold drinks by children with asthma, we must resolutely persuade them not to drink. Because once you drink cold drinks, it is easy to induce asthma. Some artificially prepared carbonated drinks mostly contain saccharin, essence, pigment and other ingredients, which are harmful to human body; Second, it contains carbon dioxide gas, which is not good for the lungs. So asthma patients should not drink carbonated drinks, including soda and beer.
6. Avoid irritating food and gas-producing food. Irritating foods include pepper, pepper, fennel, mustard, curry powder, coffee, strong tea and so on. Excessive consumption of these foods may induce asthma and should be avoided as much as possible. Gas-producing foods include sweet potato, cold taro, potato, leek, soybean and pasta. After they enter the body, they will produce a lot of gas during digestion. Before they are discharged, they will make the abdomen flatulence, the diaphragm lift and the chest contract, which is not conducive to lung ventilation and will also induce asthma. Therefore, asthma patients should not eat gas-producing food.
7. Smoking and drinking are prohibited. As mentioned above, smoking can induce asthma. Drinking sweet wine, strong liquor and Qu liquor can help fire to produce phlegm, which is not good for asthma.