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Lower Your Asthma Risk

Fruits and Vegetables High in Vitamin C Have Been Shown to Lower the incidence of Asthma Attacks
Eat Plenty of Fruits High in Vitamin C

Research has pointed to several ways to significantly lower your or your family’s asthma risk:

  • Eat plenty of fruits & vegetables high in Vitamin C.
  • Unless absolutely necessary, do not administer antibiotics to children under six months of age (European Respiratory Society Conference, Vienna, 09/03).
  • Children under the age of three should consume full-cream milk and butter daily (PIAMA Birth Cohort Study 2003; 58:567-72).
  • Stay out of indoor swimming pools; their chemicals can make lungs more susceptible to asthma (Occup & Environ Med 2003; 60:385-94).
  • Avoid hormone replacement therapy when you reach menopause (Arch Int Med 2/23/04).
  • Don’t smoke; don’t let family members be exposed to secondhand smoke. According to Robert Fink, MD “[T]he hospitalization rate for asthma in children is 50% higher if there is a smoker in the household.”
  • Open windows at home to clear the house of indoor air pollutants.
  • Avoid products, such as hairspray, that come in pressurized cans.
  • Practice stress relief, and transmit this information to your children.
    “[E]motionally induced’ asthma is a real entity,” says Dr. Fink. “It has been shown that crying or laughing can elicit a histamine response”– that is, a release of the chemical responsible for allergic reactions.
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