1992 Reviews in Medicine
Recent advances in asthma
By Peter J. Barnes and Tak H. Lee
Department of Thoracic Medicine , National Heart and Lung Institute, Dovehouse Street, SW36LY and Department of Allergy and Allied Repiratory Disorders, United Medical and Dental School, Guy's Hospital, London, SE], UK
Introduction
There recently been important advances in our undersanding of asthma mechanisms and treatment.
Water Cures Asthma
Here you will learn something I discovered as a child, that sea salt and water cures asthma.
Please NOTE: While medical health sites say steer clear of websites that claims a cure for asthma saying they do not exist, consider this. We are not selling anything. We are applying the most fundamental principles of health optimization, the very ones used in the hospital, the saline IV, only the oral version of it. This is something you can try for yourself, see if it works and decide for yourself. We are not recommending discontinuing your medications. We always recommend you follow your doctors directions. Until clinical trials are completed, this is an option, especially if you should ever be an emergency such as not having your inhalers or asthma medications.
Dr. B says that asthma is a sign and symptom of chronic unintentional fluid and electrolyte imbalance.
You will not find this on the top of the list of asthma causes. You will find, if you try it, that it works. I know because of learning this first hand as a child before the book, Your Bodies Many Cries for Water was even a theory Dr. B was considering. It ended my asthma as a child, this I have no doubt.
In later life, a new challenge faced me. It took years to find that I was experiencing an often misdiagnosed asthma, called cough variant asthma.
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Asthma Cured with Sea Salt and Water
I unknowingly treated and cured my asthma as a child. It was thought that I grew out of the asthma. This was before we knew the effects of chronic smoke exposure. This is before we knew what COPD was. This is before the many modern treatments for asthma that exist today.
The treatment I discovered as a child was simply a combination of becoming a salt-a-holic and drinking alkaline water. What we know now is that the combination of salt and water help improve asthma symptoms. Asthma is the result of inflammation. Adding alkaline water, causing the body to become more alkaline, can help reduce inflammation.
We will review the asthma signs, symptoms, natural treatments and remedies. Water cures is an amazingly simple solution to asthma. Although there is little science, there are a number of doctors who are using this with their patients. They use it because it works.
Join us on a journey of the mind to learn how many have ended their affliction with asthma simply using sea salt and water. The information here is free. We are not selling this wisdom. It is yours free to use.
Good health to you and yours.
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More Causes of Asthma
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How Water Cures Asthma The Water Cure
Asthma is now recognized as a disease of the airways which involves a special type inflammation, characterized by the presence of activated mastcells, eosinophils and T-lymphocytes. There has been a growing recognition that chronic rather than acute inflammatory events are more relevant to understanding the underlying mechanisms in asthma and the role of cytokines, as mediators of chronic inflammation, has been an area of very rapid development. At the same time the approach to asthma treatment has changed, with a much greater emphasis on the earlier and more widespread use of inhaled anti-inflammatory drugs, and inhaled steroids. There has also been an increased understanding of the mechanisms of action of existing anti-asthma therapies, but at the same time questions have been raised about the safety of some treatments. This has prompted the search for novel anti-asthma therapies, based on our current understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms. The literature on asthma is vast and we do not intend to provide an exhaustive or comprehensive review, but have concentrated on some areas where there have been advances in knowledge which have clinical and therapeutic relevance.
Epidemiology
Asthma is one of the commonest diseases in industrialized countries and has a large economic impact in terms of health and loss of time from work. The total costs for asthma in the USA were recently estimated as $6.2billion (1992 figure), representing 1% of all US healthcare costs. There have recently been several studies which indicate that the prevalence of asthma has increased over the last few years. A study in Finnish army conscripts has revealed a marked in the number of recruits with a diagnosis of asthma. In the UK there is evidence for trends. Admission of children to hospital with asthma attacks has more than doubled over the last 10 years in the UK. The reasons for this increase in morbidity are uncertain, since it is difficult to identify a single factor in the environment which has changed over the same time frame. There has been concern about air pollution, but little direct evidence to link specific changes in air quality to worsening of asthma. It is likely that an interaction between different air pollutants is important. A recent study investigated whether a common air pollutant, ozone, had any influence on allergen challenge in a group of mild asthmatic patients. A concentration of ozone as low as 0.12 parts per million, which itself had no effect on airway function let to an increase in both the early and late response to inhaled allergen. Nitrogen dioxide(NO2) is a pollutant which is particularly associated with car exhaust fumes but there are few studies which have examined its airway effects or whether it interacts with other air pollutants or with allergen.
Allergen exposure is probably the most important factor in determining asthma severity. Exposure to allergen in early life is an important risk factor in the subsequent development of asthma. There is a striking association between the dust levels of Der pl (the major allergen of house dust mite) at the time of birth and the prevalence of asthma at 11 years of age, although current levels of exposure have been a confounding factor in this study. Increased allergen exposure has been implicated in the increase in asthma and the 'tight' houses, with poor ventilation and central heating increasingly found in temperate climates, may increase the house dust mite population and the concentration of indoor pollutants such as cigarette smoke.
Another possible factor
contributing to the increased
morbidity
and even mortality of
asthma may be the use
of anti-asthma medication,
and in particular the
excessive use of inhaled
beta (β)-agonists.
The pathology of the
asthmatic airway mucosa
Early studies in patients
dying from status
asthmaticus revealed
marked inflammation
of the bronchial tree.
Recent evidence using
fibre optic bronchoscopy
and biopsy has confirmed
that similar changes are
also present in asthmatic
patients during life. There
is extensive damage of
the epithelium; the
numbers of epithelial cells
recovered by bronchoalveolar lavage correlate
with the extent of air ways
hyperresponsiveness.
Recentmorphological studies
using transmission
electron microscopy and
the use of monoclonal
antibodies to differentiate
collagen subtypes, have
shown that bronchial
epithelial basement
membrane is of normal
thickness in asthma.
However, there is a
dense deposition of
collagen fibres in the
a
.This consists
predominantly of
collagen types 3 and 5,
together with fibronectin
but not laminin. The
cellular source of the sub
epithelial collagen may be
the myofibroblast."
Mastcells
Mastcells in the asthmatic
airway mucosa
are degranulated.
Considerable interest has
centred upon the recent
observation that rodent
mastcells synthesize a
wide range of cytokines
upon IgE- mediated
activation. There is, as
yet, limited data on the
generation of cytokines
for human mastcells.
Steffen et al. reported
the presence of tumour
necrosis factor alpha (TNFx)
in mastcells/basophils
derived from the culture
of human bone marrow.
Preliminary data suggest
that purified human
pulmonary mastcells
contain TNF a bio-activity.
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