Asthma, allergies and chronic diseases
Bronchial asthma
Asthma is a chronic disease that manifests itself in crisis with respiratory distress (wheezing, feeling of suffocation and hunger for atria) that occur on an occasional or recurrent, and with varying degrees of severity and duration, ranging from a few minutes to a few hours. According to estimates by the World Health Organization, 300 million people suffer from asthma and 255 000 people have died from asthma in 2005. Asthma can not be cured, but with appropriate treatment can be kept under control, allowing the person a good quality of life.
During an attack of asthma is a narrowing of the bronchioles to spasm of the musculature of the wall, swelling of the mucosa which is the lumen (= interior of a cable) and mucus hypersecretion with ostruente effect. These phenomena are due to release of substances (histamine, SRS-A slow reacting substances, serotonin, plasmachinine, etc..) As a response by the body to contact with substances called "triggers", such as allergens, smoke from burning tobacco, irritant chemicals or air pollution, are often not identifiable. For some people the crisis may get worse during physical activity or even at night. Even some medicines may trigger asthma: aspirin and other anti-inflammatory non-steroidal, and beta-blockers (which are used to treat high blood pressure, heart problems and migraine).
Usually the entry of allergens avv iene inhalation powder housing, hair of cat, dog, pollens, but the contact can also lead to ingestion (fish, shellfish, eggs) and injected (protein products used in pharmacology). Urbanization is associated with an increased incidence of asthma, but the exact nature of this relationship is not well known.
The bronchial asthma, there may be at any time of life, but the higher incidence is observed during childhood, rarely in old age. It's early and more frequent in males. Inheritance can be demonstrated in 40-70% of cases but it is recognized as a predisposition to become ill from asthma.
The emotional and psychological labalità certainly important, and often trigger the asthma attack.
Relevant environmental conditions in relation to work: it comes to asthma of millers, the carpenters, pharmacists, in relation to the likely factors in the workplace help or trigger a crisis in predisposed individuals.
Infectious processes of the first airways and bronchi sometimes precede the onset of asthma as often accompanies an asthmatic bronchitis (asthmatic bronchitis).
The attack of asthma should be prevented by avoiding contact with the allergen, if known, and taking daily medication and consistently (cromoglicic disodium) by inhalation to control the inflammation of the airways. Although asthma is not deadly as other chronic respiratory diseases, the inappropriate treatment of the same can lead to death of the subject.
The therapy makes use of bronchodilators, mucolitici, flowing bronchial secretions, antihistamines and cortisone. Many of these drugs, especially those to be taken continuously, can be sprayed by aerosol.
What are the causes of hay fever?
The hay fever is an allergic reaction to the pollen produced by flowers, grasses and trees.
In some individuals these particles transported by air can attack the body tissues with increased virulence by activating the immune system. The consequent effect on those hypersensitive to pollen is called allergy.
What ', and how to develop allergy?
Allergy usually develops over several years. If a person contracted an allergy like hay fever, symptoms will occur every time that he will be in contact with the pollen that is sensitive. This applies even if other allergies caused by pets (dogs and cats), horses and household dust mites. In Europe, about one person in five suffers from hay fever. This percentage has grown steadily over the last few years, probably as a result of the increasing number of stimuli to which we are exposed. Our body produces too many antibodies (IgE), which in turn cause the release regard to histamine. The histamine is a compound that causes irritation to the nose and eyes and can lead to the following symptoms:
• sneezing, nasal secretion, itchiness
• nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea
• oppression of the chest, asthmatic breathing, cough
• irritability and itching eyes
• swelling or tearing of eyes
• headache
• After some time, fatigue and listlessness.
The existing methods of treatment aimed at suppression of allergic symptoms. There are different types of drugs to be adopted for use in oral and topical use (nasal spray). The drugs most used are represented by antihistamines which help relieve the symptoms dall'istamina products. However, antihistamines can cause drowsiness and affect ability to concentrate and performance driving. You can also use corticosteroid spray to alleviate allergy symptoms such as itching, irritation and tearing of the eyes, etc.. But these types of drugs are able to offer only short-term relief of symptoms.
Who needs to use a nebuliser?
The sprayers are most commonly used to treat severe attacks of asthma in a clinic or doctor in the ER. In fact, research has shown that in most cases, multiple doses of anti-inflammatory medicines taken by inhaler is as effective in severe attacks of asthma, the fog, however, are used by emergency services as they require a lower time.
Sometimes people who have severe symptoms of asthma or other pulmonary diseases are the normal inhalers ineffective on them. To help open the airways or to deal with an attack that is very quickly, a doctor can prescribe the recruitment of home care through an anti nebuliser. A very small number of people with asthma also need to use a nebulizer for the regular intake of preventive medicine.
FOOD INTOLERANCE IS NOT RECORDED MAY CONTRIBUTE TO symptoms of?
A therapist's food has a case study to show that food intolerances are not detected can worsen asthma symptoms in some cases of childhood asthma.
When I first saw Alice, a girl of eight years, his mother was quite worried after a medical report from the school informing them that Alice was quite overweight for her height and age and should lose weight.
When I checked the medical history of Alice discovered that I suffered from asthma since she was newborn, and was taking four different medications every day to control asthma.
Alice, a girl and vivid sun, followed a diet after all, typical in children of today, which then included a breakfast cereal and milk with added sugar in the morning, a packed lunch with sandwiches and stuffed with fomaggio margarine bars followed by cereals docificate when Alice was a school, an evening meal cooked with vegetables and rice, followed by ice cream for dessert. The liked the yoghurt fruit well sweetened, and chocolate chips. His mother keep away from fizzy drinks, so Alice drank mostly fruit juices and water.
Intestinal malabsorption and food sensitivity
Children with asthma are usually sensitive to the foods they eat. They are often suffering from "intestinal malabsorption, where the intestinal membrane becomes too permeable. In short, the intestinal membrane proteins and normally absorb nutrients into the blood stream. When people are suffering from 'intestinal malabsorption' the absorption process becomes more random. The intestine lining has too many "holes" (which makes the intestine more a sieve than a sieve), allowing unwanted food molecules. This can lead to many health problems, including allergies. Sugar, processed foods and certain commonly consumed foods aggravate the problem, particularly dairy products and 'gluten', which is found in wheat, oats, rye and barley.
The nutritionally
Alice excluding wheat, oats, sugar, white flour and dairy products from his diet for a month to see how it would respond. While I was confident that this approach would have made a difference to his asthma, I was sure it would also have lost weight fairly easily, by eating a wider variety of healthy foods.
I explained to Alice that would replace the breakfast cereals with others that did not contain sugar, which were based on quinoa, millet or maize, which are all gluten free. Would also have had to replace cow's milk, which she wore for breakfast with milk made from almonds, rice, nuts or quinoa.
For lunch, I suggested replacing the white bread and cheese with other foods that have been agreed acceptable, such as hummus, raw vegetables, rice or potato salad, tuna and cous cous made with quinoa.
To remedy the chocolate, the fruit yoghurt and cereal bars sweetened, I recommend a snack containing almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts and cashew , Mixed with raisins and figs, and a piece of fresh fruit of your choice. The chocolate was allowed to eat twice a week, and the fries just once a week. If you absolutely wanted to eat yoghurt yoghurt white with bits of banana, which is naturally sweet.
I was pleased that Alice's mother insisted that were eliminated from the diet soft drinks, and said that it could continue to drink fruit juice and water. I also recommended a multi-vitamin with minerals for children of high-quality, somewhat 'of vitamin C powder with blueberries and a product containing l-glutamine to counteract the intestinal malabsorption.
Reduction in weight and drug