I started to take notes about my dietary intake and lifestyle. I took note of my symptoms, how frequent, how long they lasted, and how severe they were. I also noted how many times I took the inhaler and how many times I had an attack, what caused the asthma attacks. By the end of two weeks only, I learnt so much about myself and my dietary habits, and by the end of four weeks I understood my condition more than ever before. While making a self assessment I started to read about the foods that I was eating.
My diet consisted of meat, fish, shellfish, poultry, dairy products, especially cheese,cheese and more cheese, lots of white bread, very little fruit, one or two type of vegetable usually overcooked per day. Legumes, very little salad, and cheese, cheese and more cheese, white rice, my weekly treats of sweets, chocolates, cakes, salted peanuts,biscuits, crisps and fizzy drinks, at least 10 cups of tea a day. And my almost daily greasy fat chips from the local chippy, always over salted and doused with onion vinegar.
According to asthma.org.uk, most people with asthma do not have to follow a special diet. But, in some cases, certain foods, including cow's milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, yeast products, nuts, and some food colouring and preservatives, can make symptoms worse.
Every book and research I read showed strong links with the above type foods and asthma. I also discovered a lot of E numbers in my food and the negative reaction it has on many people. I removed cheese, sweets, chocolates, cakes, peanuts, biscuits, crisps and fizzy drinks from my diet. Occasionally I would have them, however they were no longer in my diet every day. Results, I still had asthma attacks and I still used my preventer inhalers. 3 months later I noticed that I was not using the inhaler as frequent. That is to say I was no longer using the inhaler beyond the recommended dose of 4 times a day. No other changes were made to my diet and lifestyle.
Excited by the results I then removed all other dairy from my daily diet. I had them sometimes, but not every day. Just a little over a week later, I noticed that I used my reliever inhaler only twice a day. Now that is amazing for me. A chronic asthmatic suffer, using the inhaler at least 6 + times a day to 2 to 3 times a day. I still had all the uncomfortable symptoms of asthma, but fewer. I knew that I was on the road to recovery. I had made positive changes to my diet and I was already getting results. I became comfortable with it and left it at that.
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