How To Discover Your Hidden Asthma Triggers - Taking Control By

How To Discover Your Hidden Triggers - Taking Control By
Tracking Your Asthma
By Susan Millar

Asthma is a serious lung disease effecting over 20 million
people in the US alone. An attack is caused by a trigger,
which can be any external stimulant such as perfume, food, air
pollution, cold air, animals, dust, etc., which our bodies react
to. Knowing what your personal triggers are and avoiding them
will help greatly to prevent attacks. However, what
triggers an attack in some people may not even bother
another sufferer at all.

To make things more confusing, sometimes a trigger will cause a
mild reaction one day and then a severe one the next day. This
could be the result of being exposed to multiple triggers, for
example one of your known triggers could be pollen, but when
combined with a few new unknown triggers - fabric softener,
detergent, perfume or a food additive can hit very hard and
trigger a major attack. On days when you are feeling tired and
haven't had enough sleep or are under stress, you may also find
that things which never seemed to bother you previously now
suddenly do.

As you see tracing them can be rather complex and requires a
bit of detective work to track down and eliminate or minimize
these triggers at home or at work. Keeping track of your asthma
attacks by writing a journal for a few days is a good way to
start. First it's a good idea to note how you were feeling the
day you had an attack, if you were tired or didn't sleep well,
had a fight with your friend.

What did you eat? Make this detailed and include food
ingredients, additives and coloring since they can be a trigger
for many people. Where did you go that day? Were there weeds or
flowers blooming nearby, animals, damp moldy smells around you?
Did you start using a new detergent, fabric softener or
household cleaner? Make a note of any exercise you do and your
body's reaction to it. On one particular day did the exercise
have negative results? Why? What was the weather like? What was
the

room where you exercised like? If the room is where you
regularly go to exercise, was there anything different about it
on that day?

After only a few days of writing in your journal you will soon
see a pattern emerging. You will have uncovered your asthma
triggers and now you can take control and prevent an asthma
attack by avoiding, reducing or eliminating them.

However it just isn't practical or even possible to control or
eliminate all triggers, particularly outside the home, at work,
school or in public places. Fortunately, there is a safe
non-drug solution that you should know about, a simple and
natural allergy and treatment, which many people have
found to be very effective.

About the Author: Susan Millar is a former and allergy
sufferer. She is a researcher and author of The Dramatic Asthma
Relief Report, based on extensive research about a genuinely
effective drug-free allergy and treatment, helping people
worldwide become and allergy free. Please visit
http://www.dramatic-asthma-relief.com/ for more information.

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