Asthma: Are there any alternative ways to treat asthma?

Question

The majority of the asthma medicines cause weight gain and I am over weight as it is, and with the some of the side affects from the asthma medicines causing weight gain I'm wondering if there are other natural ways to treat asthma? Or something that would help stop the asthma medicines side affect of weight gain.

Answer 1

Please investigate the answers you read here fully. One of the known facts about asthma is that each person needs to have a personalized treatment program. My grandson has managed on nothing but Benedryl for many years, and now is symptom free (for now).

My nephew has to use the breathing machine, and take steroidal medication, and has hospital emergencies every other month in spite of extensive care.

There is a much larger discussion of asthma in other answers, which can be found in your Yahoo!Answers search box. See link below.

Answer 2

Asthma is an allergy and is triggered by something. The best non medication treatment for asthma is learning your triggers and avoiding them. Common triggers are smoke, dust, mold, mildew, plants, dust mites, pets and grass/weeds.

If you can not figure our your triggers, you may need to see an allergist and have allergy screening done. This may point out your triggers.

The National Asthma Prevention Program and the Expert Panel of Diagnosis and Management of Asthma both agree if you have to use a prescription inhaler such as albuterol more then two time per week, your asthma is NOT in control and you will need a prescription controller medication.

Controller medications are steroids (Asthmacort Asthmanex, Flovent, Pulmocort), Leukotriene modifier (Singulair, Aculade, Zyflo) or mast cell stabilizers (Cromolyn sodium, Intal, Tilade).

You may want to talk to your doctor about several strong controller medications and maybe Xolair shots.

If you want a proven, all-natural way to cure your asthma, without having to pay for useless medications with harmful side-effects, then this is the most important page you'll ever read.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Treating your asthma is far more important than worrying about your possible weight gain. Can't gain weight if you can't breathe. Natural ways to treat asthma aren't as effective as using bronchodilators like albuterol or proventil. Talk to your doctor about your concerns and, if you do need to take asthma medication, control the weight gain with healthy diet.


EDIT: In response to the answerer below me, I'd have to disagree on that point. Using natural methods of treating asthma may work some of the time, but if you were to have an asthma attack, medication would do far more than herbal remedies. Asthma is a serious condition and it needs treatment.

Answer 5

I have asthma to what i do is i take my puffers twice a day or when needed i also take "provex plus" it works great but you can only order it online at
www.melaleuca.com

Its a very great product and you dont gain weight while taking it

Answer 6

Yes, my son has asthma and I give him grape seed pills daily. And when he is having an attack I give him cayenne pepper in water, then I give him slippery elm in powder form in pinches that he swallows then glasses of water and lobelia which takes away the symptoms. My son rarely gets attacks.

Try to get yourself this book called Back to Eden by Jethro Kloss, that's how I found out about these herbs. If you have trouble finding lobelia or any of the other herbs email me and I'll give you the name of some mail order companies where you can buy them.

As for the answerer before me he is misinformed, the steroids that they use in those inhalers are harmful and they are the reason I looked for alternative methods to treat my son.

Please try the methods I used for my son, it works.