My Asthma Solution

by Nureetco1

Medical experts and wellness practitioners have been questioning, for centuries, the causes of asthma. Most of them favor the idea that it stems from cells that have been damaged. As we know, asthma is caused by inflammation in the airways. When an asthma attacks takes place, the muscles surrounding the airways become constricted and tight.
An estimated 25 million to 30 million people in the United States suffer from asthma, and cases of it have been increasing since the early 1980s, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Every day, in this country, 30,000 people suffer an asthma attack, and about 20 people die from the disease.
Asthma occurs when the body's natural system of defense against bacteria, viruses, and other harmful microbes becomes overprotective. It misidentifies relatively harmless pollens, dust, and dander, setting up a reaction that narrows and inflames small airways in the lungs. From that it is short way to breathlessness, wheezing, tissue damage, and, in the worst cases, death.
In the standard textbook version of what happens, the cells respond to pollens, dust, and other irritants by secreting proteins that attack the irritants as if they are bits of disease-causing bacteria or viruses. Researchers have checked the lung cells of many patients, smokers and nonsmokers with moderate to severe asthma. It was a big surprise, that researchers found that most of the troubles were caused by cells that actually attack the lungs.
The finding means that physicians may not be treating asthma sufferers with the right kinds of drugs. For example, natural killer T cells seem to be resistant to the corticosteroids in widely used inhalers.
These cells actually make up a small population of cells in our blood, but in our asthmatic lungs, they apparently proliferate and over expand. Some new drugs and other treatments would be aimed at reducing their numbers in the lungs, or preventing them from becoming activated.
This preface brings me to the point that we have to better understand our symptoms and the ways we can control them. And the first thing we have to do, is to decide to live healthy and strong and free of diseases.
The first step you need to take to rid yourself of asthma is to decide TO RID YOURSELF OF THIS DISEASE. Yes, it is a decision. Once you are committed to the idea, you start a long search into different methods that fit your lifestyle, your pocketbook and your beliefs.

At this point I can help you with my solution. It worked for me; I hope it will work for you. But before we get to that, I would like you to know that from day one, when I got diagnosed with asthma, I made the decision to get rid of it, NO MATER WHAT.

That started a long road that lasted 25 years and ended only a few months ago. So I can save you the search, the agony, the pain, the disappointments and the cost. Huge cost. I have spent thousands and thousands of dollars on medication, Cortisone inhalers, when I got bad attacks, even cortisone injections. I spent thousands on all kinds of healers, from allergy treatments to homeopathic medications, NOTHING REALLY WORKED.

Please don't get me wrong, many of the treatments, the healers and the alternative medications, helped a bit. There was always a chance that the cure is around the corner, but it wasn't. I have met wonderful people during the search for cure of this horrible illness, who were very helpful and very supportive, but the symptoms had a life of their own, and they persisted.

So after this brief introduction, I would like you to be open minded, look for solutions that fit your lifestyle and beliefs. Please visit my site to learn more.

Posted 10/27/2008 6:14:27 PM
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Nureet Cohen
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