Diet in bronchial asthma

Bronchial asthma is characterized by a chronic course, so treatment of the disease usually lasts a long time, sometimes even a lifetime. The emphasis in the treatment of asthma is put on the fight against infection and allergic reaction, as well as on increasing immunity, and for this it is very important not only competent therapy, but also proper nutrition. Diet in bronchial asthma - what is it? Is it possible to cure the disease with the help of changes in nutrition?

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The essence of the diet for bronchial asthma

With bronchial asthma, the treatment table No. 9 is appointed, whose goal is to normalize metabolic processes, to alleviate symptoms and to prevent new bouts of the disease.

Diet number 9 should ensure that all necessary nutrients are supplied to the body.

The energy value of the daily menu is normal, digestible carbohydrates are excluded, the use of spices and seasonings is allowed in a very scarce amount.

It is recommended to prepare food in a double boiler, boil, or bake. Extinguishing of products is allowed.

Treatment table number 9 implies frequent eating, about five times a day.

Hypoallergenic diet for bronchial asthma should have the following composition and caloric value:

• proteins - from 100 to 130 g;
• lipids - 85 g;
• the amount of complex carbohydrates is 300 g;
• average daily energy value - from 2600 to 2700 kcal;
• the amount of liquid used is from 1.5 to 1.8 liters;
• the amount of salt consumed per day - up to 10 g;
• the recommended temperature of food is from +15 to + 65 ° C.

The proposed method of nutrition stabilizes carbohydrate metabolism, and also has a positive effect on the overall metabolic processes in the body. It can be used not only for bronchial asthma, but also for other diseases associated with allergic manifestations or metabolic disorders.

Diet for asthma in adults

Fighting the allergic mood of the body with the help of a diet implies a complete rejection of sweetened dishes and foods.

You should eat less salt, because sodium, when the body is allergic, increases the bronchial hypersensitivity to external stimuli. For this reason, do not eat salty foods and add salt to the ready-made meals. Among other things, sodium, which is capable of retaining moisture, can create all conditions for the development of edema of the mucous tissues of the respiratory system, which will negatively affect the function of breathing.

Patients with bronchial asthma should limit the use of spices, vinegar, sauces. Even trite phytoncids, which are found in onions and garlic, can provoke an attack of the disease. Therefore, onions and garlic, before adding to the dishes, should be heat treated.

Extremely harmful for asthmatics are salted and smoked products that can cause the development of inflammation of the pancreas and gallbladder. It is also desirable to exclude various exotic fruits for our region: citrus fruits, pineapples, mangoes, etc.

Very carefully should be approached to the choice of tea and coffee - these drinks should only be of high quality, since the various flavors and other additives that are present in the drinks can cause an asthmatic attack. For your own safety, it is better to replace tea or coffee with a rose hips decoction, a Sudanese rose or infusions of herbs.

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Diet in children with bronchial asthma

The nutrition of a child who has been diagnosed with bronchial asthma should not consist of products containing substances such as histamine and tyramine, since they trigger an allergic reaction. The greatest amount of these substances was found in hard cheese, beef sausage (including boiled), in smoked products, canned food, sauerkraut. Such products should not be offered to children even during remission.

A diet for a child-asthmatics should provide for the exclusion of allergens from entering the digestive system, as well as creating obstacles to their assimilation. It is proved that all possible additives to food in the form of spices and seasonings accelerate the ingestion of substances that are unnecessary to the body of the child in the blood.

If the older children determine the product that causes an asthma attack, it is difficult, because the nutrition in the older age is already quite diverse, then in children under 1 year it is relatively easy. Feeding the baby is introduced gradually and in several stages, so the reaction of the child can detect a potential allergen and then exclude it from the menu.

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Diet with Aspirin Bronchial Asthma

The attack of aspirin bronchial asthma can cause the reception of acetylsalicylic acid and other non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs. As a rule, having appeared once, hypersensitivity to aspirin and similar drugs remains with a person for life.

In addition to the fact that patients are strongly advised to avoid drugs based on acetylsalicylic acid and other non-steroid preparations, diet is of great importance for them.

Tartrazine (E 102) - a coloring agent that gives a yellow tinge to many food products and medicines. It is added to carbonated drinks, juices, ice cream, caramel, confectionery, biscuits, chips, crackers, muesli, shop sauces, packaged soups and semi-finished products, preserves, cheeses, noodles and chewing gum.

In asthmatics, eating products with tartrazine in just a few minutes can cause an attack of bronchial asthma. For this reason, you should carefully study the packaging before buying the products. If the composition of the product on the label is not specified, then, first of all, it should alert its yellowish color, which can have a different degree of saturation - from pale yellow to poisonous-yellow color.

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The menu of a diet at a bronchial asthma

• The first breakfast can consist of cottage cheese dishes, with the addition of sour cream, fruit, butter. Occasionally you can allow cereals, both on water and on milk (with normal tolerability). At the end of breakfast it is allowed to drink tea (with milk, cream), broth of wild rose, diluted with fresh fruit juice.
• As a second breakfast, fruit salad, pudding, yoghurt is perfect.
• At lunchtime, you can prepare vegetable soup, borsch, any first dish on a thin broth. Supplement the dinner with vegetable stew, a piece of boiled meat or fish fillet, vegetable steamed meatballs, casseroles. As a drink you can prepare compote without sugar, tea, herbal infusion.
• As an afternoon snack, sour-milk products, fruit mousses or jelly without sugar, fresh fruit.
• For dinner, you can eat salads of fresh and stewed vegetables, steam meatballs, meat casseroles.
• Before going to bed it is recommended to drink 100-200 ml of fresh curdled milk or kefir.

Diet recipes for bronchial asthma

Steam cutlets with an apple. Ingredients: 0.5 kg minced meat from turkey or chicken fillet, one not very sweet apple, 1-2 onions, 2 tbsp. Spoons of semolina, a little salt.

Grind minced meat in a meat grinder or blender along with a chopped apple and onion. The resulting mass of salt, pour the mango, mix, leave for about an hour (for swelling of the mango). An hour later, we make cutlets and distribute them on the grill of the steamer. Preparation time - 25 minutes.

• Creamy soup cream. We will need: 1 liter of any broth, 200 ml of cream, 2 tbsp. Spoons of vegetable oil, one onion, one clove of garlic, one carrot, one potato, 4 medium zucchini, salt, dried bread cubes.

Vegetables are cleaned, cut and stewed in a thick-walled saucepan with chopped onion and garlic. Periodically stir. After 6-7 minutes add the broth and tushim to the full readiness of the vegetable component.

A little heat cream, part of the broth poured into a container. We turn the stewed vegetables into mashed potatoes with a blender, top up the cream and, if necessary, the broth. Stirring, warming and removing from heat. Serve with dried bread slices.

• Quick and useful soufflé. We need: one sweet apple, about 200 grams of cottage cheese, one egg.

We rub the apple on a grater, mix it with cottage cheese and egg. We distribute according to the molds, which are suitable for use in a microwave oven. We place in the microwave for 5 minutes at maximum power: readiness is checked by the state of the top crust, it should be cream colored. When serving, you can pour sour cream or fruit juice.

• Mini casseroles from cabbage. Components of the dish: 2 tbsp. Spoons of vegetable oil, two eggs, 100 ml of milk, 3 tbsp. Spoonfuls of oatmeal, 400 g freshly chopped cabbage, salt.

Cabbage stew with oil and a little water for about 15 minutes. Pour the oats, add a little salt, milk and put the stew for another 10 minutes. Remove from the fire, cool. In the cooled cabbage we add eggs, mix, distribute according to the molds. We put it in the oven at 200 ° C for half an hour. Serve with sour cream. Bon Appetit!

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What can you eat with bronchial asthma?

• Bread products of dark sort, can be added with bran, whole wheat bread, diabetic pastries.
• The first dishes on a thin broth.
• Not too fatty meat (veal, rabbit, turkey) boiled, cooked in a double boiler, or baked; chicken with restrictions.
• Sea fish in the form of boiled or steamed fillets, can be baked in foil in the oven.
• Vegetable side dishes, in a small amount of porridge.
• Sour-milk products, soft home-made cottage cheese, whole milk - with good tolerability.
• Dishes with chicken and quail eggs - carefully, with good tolerability.
• Salad from vegetables, jelly, jellied.
• Fresh fruit and berry dishes, without sugar.
• Quality black and green tea, you can with the addition of milk. Herbal decoction or infusion, freshly squeezed fresh sugarless (diluted with water), mineralized water.
• Natural butter, quality unrefined oils.

What can not eat with bronchial asthma?

• Fried products, as well as baked with crust.
• Bakery products from white flour, buns.
• Products and dishes with the addition of chocolate, cocoa powder, coffee.
• Confectionery products, dishes with jam, jam, honey.
• In most cases it is not recommended to use exotic fruits such as citrus, dates, figs, and also potential allergenic products - strawberries, grapes, raspberries.
• A fat sort of meat (including poultry with skin), lard, liver products.
• Culinary fat blends, spread, margarine.
• Strong, rich, thick broths.
• Salted, dried fish and meat products.
• Smoked meat, preserved, pickled products.
• Spices and spices, vinegar, mustard, horseradish, ketchup, mayonnaise, other shop sauces.
• Sweetened sodas and spirits.

Reviews of the diet for bronchial asthma

The diet for patients with bronchial asthma is used not only for preventive and curative purposes, but also for the detection and exclusion of those products that cause the patient to have an asthmatic attack. The patients themselves noticed that with full respect for the rules of dietary nutrition one can sometimes afford something of forbidden foods. The lack of an organism's reaction to this product may indicate that its use is safe and does not cause hypersensitivity of the body. Each component of the menu is introduced separately from others, and the resumption of the first symptoms of an exacerbation of the disease indicates the presence of an allergy on the product.

By this method of "trial and error" many patients determine for themselves their own list of foods and dishes, of which a daily diet is then compiled.

For its part, it should be noted that such experiments should be conducted only under the supervision of the attending physician, who can help in time and redirect the treatment in the right direction. Self-adjusted diet, without the consent of a specialist, is not welcome.

Diet with bronchial asthma is mandatory, and often patients have to stick to it all their life. However, many dietitians compare this diet with one of the types of normal healthy food, so a new diet can help patients not only alleviate the symptoms of asthma, but also improve the body as a whole.