“What Can I Do To Improve My Asthma?”

If you have an asthma attack, you will need medication and possibly emergency care depending upon severity. So I won’t talk about an acute asthma attack.

You might be able to reduce attack frequency by eliminating potential triggers.

This will vary somewhat from person to person. These could be done on top of whatever medications and advice your doctor gives you. Talk to a qualified health care practitioner for anything specific for you.

Airborne triggers will likely include specific allergens that a person may react to – commonly certain plant pollens, pets, and mold among others.

It is also very likely a person will react to certain chemicals in the air with things like air pollution, perfumes, scented candles, laundry detergents, fabric softeners, and cleaning supplies.

Things like smoke and tobacco products are common asthma triggers.

A person may react to certain foods.

These vary from person to person. Many different foods could be causing an abnormal reaction. Dairy would be fairly common. Other things that are fairly common could be preservatives including sulfates, nitrates, and nitrites. Other foods could be involved.

All these things vary from person to person.

There is some evidence that a ketogenic diet could help asthma sufferers.

Vitamin D supplementation could possibly help as I mentioned reviewing a research paper here.

In general, things that improve your health and reduce inflammation with lifestyle would be a great idea.

This is not specific to asthma, but may improve ability to get a deeper breath just mechanically.

To further clarify – I’m not saying this treats asthma… however our structure influences how deeply we can breathe.
Often posture is compromised with head being too far forward and the shoulders being drawn inward. This reduces our ability to get as deep a breath. Problems within the rib articulations can likewise cause issues in being able to properly expand your chest. These things are important and often overlooked.

A good chiropractor can identify these problems as well as do things to improve them.

Asthma is a serious problem and it would make sense to both reduce or preferably eliminate triggers as well as generally improving health. Talk to your healthcare provider about it.