Everything is free,
try it - efficiency of modern science treatment is 0% - they only drug you.
What i used was the advice in book "Naturally Free From Asthma" - however it is not for free.
You may study the Buteyko Method and apply it on you - this is exactly what this small book contains
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Incase the site goes down, I'm posting the main info:
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Disclaimer: Asthma is dangerous. It can kill. Use your common sense. You are responsible for your own actions. I am not a Doctor, before you alter your medication, talk to one.
The Buteyko Technique
"Buteyko" is a set of simple breathing exercises to help control asthma and other breathing disorders. Anyone can do it, and it only takes a week or so to master, and more than 50% of people with asthma will benefit from it.
Step 1 : The "Control Pause" Breathing Test
Take 2 normal breaths, then breath out, and then see how long you can hold your breath for. Your goal is to be able to hold it for at least 60 secs.
Step 2 : Shallow Breathing
Breathe, only using your nose, for 5 minutes. Take shallow breaths, using only your nose to breath through. Keep your mouth shut. Then take the "control pause" test again to see if your count has improved. Its that simple.
Hint: if your nose is blocked up, try pinching your nostrils together for a few seconds. This helps clear your nasal passage.
Step 3 : Putting it Together
Repeat the "test - breath - test" routine 4 or so times in a row. It will take about 25 mins.
Repeat this training session 3 or 4 times a day, every day, for a week.
Don't worry if you miss a session or 2, but do carry on. Its increasing your 'control pause' test result that's the goal.
That's it. Its that simple. After a week, you should be able to breath out and hold your breath for a count of over 60 secs., and hopefully, your asthma will be much better.
You do not need to go on an overpriced Buteyko course ... if you want to know more, read one of the books mentioned below.
A good way to insure you stick to something, is to keep a log of your progress.
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How It Works
Breathing is controlled by the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2)in the blood (not by the amount of oxygen).
Normally, when the amount of CO2 in your blood rises, you breathe. This replaces some of the CO2 with oxygen, and so lowers the CO2 level back to normal.
During an asthma attack, people panic and breath too quickly. They actually overbreathe because they are breathing so rapidly, i.e. they are breathing in a far greater volume of air than normal.
This causes the amount of CO2 in the blood to fall too low. The body reacts by causing the airways in the lungs to narrow and reduce the amount of air inhaled in each breath... which panics the patient into trying to breath even harder...
This technique will break this "negative feedback" cycle by teaching you to :
* breath more shallowly, i.e. decreasing the volume of air reaching the lungs with each breath.
* tolerate a higher concentration of C02 in your blood.
With only a little effort, you can make a big difference to your breathing in only a little time.
According to the Buteyko theory, modern asthma drugs ("brown" preventers and "blue" inhalers) actually make the problem worse, by masking the body's self defensive behaviour. By stopping the 'breathe less' response, they only make the body try harder next time, that is, have a stronger asthma attack.
Think of it like this, if you put your hand in a fire it hurts. Modern asthma drugs are like pain killers, they only stop your hand from hurting, i.e. they address the symptom, not the cause of the problem. The symptom is the asthma attack, the cause is breathing in too much oxygen and having too little CO2 in the blood.
There are probably several root causes of the symptom that we call asthma. Some of these causes respond very well to this breathing technique, some do not.
Hence, if you follow this technique, there is a very good chance than your asthma will greatly improve, but there is a chance it will not. However, its easy to try, its free, and its not surgical and doesn't involve taking any drugs.
Further Reading
United Kingdom
Dr. Buteyko is a Russian Doctor who developed the technique. He has written the forward to the definitive book on the subject:
Unfortunately, while telling you all about the theory behind the treatment, its doesn't describe the actual shallow breathing technique at all, it just says "go on a course", which makes the whole book seem like a sales patter. You should be aware of this before buying the book.
This new book sounds promising, but I haven't read it yet.
Ian Sample, science correspondent
Saturday September 2, 2006
The Guardian
Children have a greater risk of developing asthma if their mothers have too little vitamin E during pregnancy, scientists have found. Researchers in Scotland discovered the link after conducting tests on 1,253 women and their babies over a five-year period.
The women were given blood tests and asked to fill out questionnaires to monitor their food intake at various stages of pregnancy. The researchers then looked at how many of their children went on to be diagnosed with asthma by their GPs.
The scientists divided the women in to five groups according to their vitamin E intake and compared them. They found women with the lowest vitamin E intake - between 3mg and 6mg per day - were five times more likely to have children with asthma than women in the group that had the most vitamin E.
"We know from animal studies that vitamin E influences respiratory development, so we suspect the same might be happening here," said Graham Devereux of Aberdeen University's department of environmental and occupational medicine, who led the study.
The study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, cited vegetable oils, margarine, wheat germ, nuts and sunflower seeds as major sources of vitamin E.
Dr Devereux warned pregnant women not to attempt to boost their vitamin E levels during pregnancy by taking supplements because of concerns over high intakes of the vitamin.
"We believe vitamin E probably accounts for around 10% to 15% of the rise in asthma," he added.
Nearly all vitamin E is manufactured are sold to vitamin companies by Eastman Kodak or Henkle.
This synthetic (by product of making film) version is reported to actually cause disease. It's best to get your vitamins in food. I would also stay away from margarine (hydrogenated oils or trans-fats), canola and soy.
Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:33 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
21:47:32 EDT Oct 25, 2006
Canadian Press: SERENA GORDON /HEALTHDAY REPORTER
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) - Being overweight increases the odds you'll be misdiagnosed as having asthma when other problems are actually to blame for shortness of breath or wheezing.
That's the conclusion of a new study that was to be presented Monday at the American College of Chest Physicians annual meeting, in Salt Lake City. Researchers found about 60 percent of overweight people diagnosed with asthma actually didn't have the lung disease.
Study author Dr. Chirag Mehta, a pulmonary critical care fellow at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey, explained that people who are overweight or obese can have other conditions that produce symptoms similar to asthma, such as shortness of breath from being out of shape or wheezing from acid reflux disease.
The bottom line, he cautioned other physicians, is that "we should be looking for other diagnoses with a patient with increased BMI." Body mass index (BMI) is a ratio of height to weight.
Asthma is also misunderstood by many doctors, and people who really have asthma often cannot make it disappear through breathing exercises. I've had to fight my whole life with doctors, as well as my mother. There are different types of asthma. Intrinsic asthma is not curable. Some people outgrow their asthma when they grow older simply because they are growing and their throat enlarges as they grow. But when you have intrinsic asthma, there are no breathing exercises that will help. You're stuck on a cocktail of prednazone, preventil and steiroids for your whole life. Someone with intrinsic asthma wouldn't even be able to do the exercises without passing out. Intrinsic asthma makes it impossible to breathe all the time, round the clock. Not many PCP's are aware of this. If you have asthma, you should really be seeing a specialist who is aware of all the types of asthma. There is a lot of misinformation out there, and unfortunately much of it is spread by doctors.
Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:38 pm
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
BBT has been shown to be effective in curing or at least improving many other chronic conditions such as allergy, rhinitis, high blood pressure, angina, obstructive sleep apnoea, arthritis, weak immunity, bronchitis, emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, sinusitis, anxiety, migraine, and panic attacks.
Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:10 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
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Asthma, chronic cough and bronchitis are all consequences of systemic respiratory inflammation. All too frequently the cause of the inflammation is food sensitivity. However - food sensitivity is hardly ever recognised as the culprit - so all we do is relieve the symptoms with medication.
But if you can identify the Problem Food (Food Sensitivity) and substitute it for a better food - respiratory problems like coughing and asthma disappear permanently - without medications.
-http://www.foodintol.com/chronic-cough
I've had a chronic cough for months that I noticed got alleviated when I avoided wheat based foods which lead me to find this. Wheat based foods also sometimes gave me heartburn.
