When you’ve been diagnosed with a chronic conditions you’ve essentially been told that you can’t be cured, that there’s nothing that modern medicine can do to save you. Now, that’s not to say that medicine won’t keep you alive and keep your standard of living nice and high. What it won’t do is ever alleviate your symptoms forever, you’ll be stuck in a vicious circle of medication and hospitals for the rest of your life.
It’s times like this, where you’ve done all you can do with modern medicine, that you need to broaden your horizons and look further afield. Before I get further into this, I hasten to add, while you’re learning and experimenting with alternative therapies you must keep taking the medication which is keeping you alive! Sustain your wellness and look for improvements, don’t sacrifice it and expect miracles elsewhere.
Asthma is a chronic condition which is fairly effectively managed with medicine. Regardless of this management, asthmatic patients are at risk of attacks at almost any time and anything which could lessen the frequency of these attacks or increase their resistance to common allergens would be a godsend! There are all sorts of things you can do in your day to day life to help to do just that and we’re here to help you learn what they are!
– Avoid processed food as it’s full of complex allergens which will damage your health in the long term and make you much more susceptible to attacks.
– Eat an anti-inflammatory diet, similar to that of an arthritis suffer. There are plenty of articles on Yourwellness.com full of tasty recommendations on doing just this!
– Cleanliness is important as the common dust mite is one of the worst exacerbating factors for asthma. Their excrement which is often found in dust in large quantities can have a devastating effect if you’re exposed to it!
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