Asthma Allergy

Asthma is a killer. In the UK 1400 people die each year from acute asthma attacks. It seems to be growing in popularity and it is worldwide. It strikes in the city and in the countryside, and it can hit you at any age. It does run in families. It is not always allergic but does often occur in a pattern of ear, nose and throat infection.

Asthma Symptoms

The basic character of asthma is of struggling to breath. The tubes carrying air to the lungs get narrower and this makes breathing harder. This can be very scary! The drug approach can give relief to an attack and so has some limited value.

The natural approach follows the basic plan set out in these pages and sets out to cure the asthma not to manage it. If there is a trigger for the asthma it makes sense to remove it. If the cause is a much loved pet then at least “Rover” can be excluded from the bedroom and kept clean and shampooed regular. Scrupulous cleaning in the house (especially keeping the bathroom and kitchen clear of mould) will keep the total exposure to the allergen down to make it easier to cope. Certainly Nutrition is a key treatment in allergic asthma. The inflammation in the airways needs to be brought under control. If you do not use vitamin anti-oxidants you are left with steroids. The selection and dosage needs to be found for each person. This is really a job for a Naturopath!

One way of doing this is to use a Personalised System of diagnosis and treatment through lab testing as used by Dr. Greg Teft. The system involves both lab’testing of hair samples and reading the “pH”, the acidity or alkalinity of the body. This is done with urine samples. Having read (I hope) the lab’Test webpage you may be surprised at this. But the testing done is for the health state leading to the allergy or asthma. And it that state that must be treated or else you are just hiding symptoms rather than helping the body to a cure.