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What food should asthma patients eat?
Asthma is a common respiratory disease, which is recognized by the world medical community as one of the four chronic diseases and listed as the top ten causes of death. Asthma is a chronic airway inflammation involving eosinophils, mast cells and other inflammatory cells. It is characterized by repeated wheezing, expiratory dyspnea, chest tightness and other symptoms.

Suitable food

1. Choice of staple food and beans: The calorie requirement is similar to that of normal people, and there is no special requirement. For the main food that provides calories, you can eat it according to the patient's usual diet, and eat more bean products such as tofu.

2. Choice of meat, eggs and milk: Patients with recurrent asthma, chronic diseases, weak constitution and decreased resistance should be given enough protein diet to meet the needs of the body.

3. Choice of vegetables and fruits: You should eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.

4, the choice of fruit: eat the right amount of pears, oranges, loquat, walnuts, bananas, sesame seeds, honey and so on. , help defecate unobstructed, reduce abdominal pressure and prevent asthma attacks.

5. Others: Fruits rich in calcium include hawthorn and citrus, and the content of vitamin C is also high. Dried fruits, such as almonds, melon seeds, walnuts and hazelnuts, are also rich in calcium.

Dietary taboo

1, the diet is too sweet and salty. What Chinese medicine calls "sweet wheezing" and "salty wheezing" are all caused by eating too sweet and salty food.

2. Avoid irritating food and gas-producing food. Irritating foods include pepper, pepper, fennel, mustard, curry powder, coffee, strong tea and so on. Excessive consumption of these foods may induce asthma and should be avoided as much as possible.

3. Smoking and drinking are prohibited. As mentioned above, smoking can induce asthma. Drinking sweet wine, strong liquor and Qu liquor can help fire to produce phlegm, which is not good for asthma.

4. Other food taboos include yellow croaker, dried rice, shrimp, crab, pepper, soda, soybean, sweet potato, potato, salmon, fat meat, potherb mustard, pumpkin and rice.