How Does Nutrition Affect Asthma Sufferers

Nutrition plays a great role in the proper development and function of the human body. Thus, it is normal that a healthy diet, rich in vitamins and minerals should positively affect the body, while a diet based on saturated fats and products containing sugar will have a negative impact on the body. This happens both in case of the healthy persons and that of people suffering from different conditions and ailments.

Some of the people whose state of health is influenced by nutrition are asthmatics. It has been recently proven that obese people have less chances of effectively dealing with their asthma than people with normal weight. Also, the effects usually associated with obesity, such as relatively high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high presence of fats in the body are very damaging to one’s overall health. But not does obesity have a negative effect upon the entire body, it also contributes to the further incapacity of the asthmatic to breathe. By preventing the air from entering and getting out of the lungs in a proper manner, the emergence of asthma attacks is favored. This is the reason why obese persons have higher rate of asthma attacks than persons who have weight that is between normal limits.

In addition to that, recent studies performed by the Australian scientists have revealed that eating fatty foods can have a powerful impact on the medicines’efficacy. Thus, even though the asthmatic still takes their medicine on a regular basis, the fat food can interfere with their effects and thus make them useless.

In order to stop this process, it is highly recommended that fatty foods should be totally erased from an asthmatic’s diet and that they should be replaced with fruits, vegetables, low fat dairies and low meat. This will not only give the body better immunity and help it lose useless fat, but it will also decrease the number of asthma attacks and will diminish their severity. So, if you suffer from asthma, you will have to be more careful with your diet and the amount of fats and

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Do high altitudes affect people with asthma?

The following is from healthcentral.com/asthma.

How Do High Altitudes Affect People with Asthma?

So what is the effect on high altitudes on asthma? If I board an airplane, will this make my asthma worse? What if you climb to the top of a mountain?

These are common questions I’ve had to answer over the years. In fact, when I traveled to Denver in 1985 to stay at the asthma hospital — Denver is a mile high — this was one of the questions my parents asked.

If high altitudes affect your asthma, it’s due to one of the following:

• Air is cooler and drier at higher altitudes. As I noted in this post, cool and dry air has in increased tendency to trigger asthma.


• The higher up you go the less oxygen there is in the air you breathe, this results in less oxygen getting to your lungs. If your lungs are already compromised, and the oxygen in your blood is already low, going UP may cause you to feel especially winded.

If your asthma is controlled, you should have no trouble coping with higher altitudes.  However, if you have uncontrolled asthma, or if you have severe asthma, you might have some trouble.

The folks with the most trouble coping are those with severe, persistent asthma, or your prototypical hardluck asthmatic.  The reason is because due to bad asthma, these folks might already have a lower level of oxygen in their blood.

When these hardluckers board a plane, or climb a mountain, they might start to feel winded before other folks do.  With a lower level of oxygen in their blood, and now inhaling less oxygen than at sea level, you can see how they might quickly get winded.

This is also true of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients.  If you want to learn more about the details of why this happens, I explain it in this post about why COPD patients may experience dyspnea in flights.

An interesting twist here is that while doing my research I found many studies (like this 2008 study) that actually show higher altitudes may benefit asthmatics by improving lung function and reducing the need for asthma controller medicines.

The reason is believed to have something to do with a reduction of t-helper and b-helper cells that cause inflammation (swelling) in your airways. With less swelling your lungs are less responsive to your asthma triggers, and you’ll require less controller medicine.

Likewise, this 2001 study shows children who live in higher altitudes were less likely to have asthma and when they did it was less severe.

Now these are just a few isolated studies, yet it’s still interesting to think about.

If you have hardluck asthma you might want to talk to airline officials about making plans to help you during flight.  Yet the rest of us asthmatics should be able to cope to higher altitudes quite well.