Asthma in Children

Asthma is increasing world-wide and higher numbers of deaths from asthma in affluent countries worry authorities. The Center for Disease Control in Canada reported a threefold increase of asthmatic deaths over 20 years, mostly in teenagers and young adults.

Asthma causes and treatment

Asthma is allergy until proven otherwise.
Allergy comes from airborne and food sources.
Solve asthma by improving air quality
Solve food allergy by doing diet revision.
Use drugs if avoidance measures fail.

The three basic treatment choices are

Remove the Cause of Asthma
Treat the symptoms
Alter the host to be more tolerate of the causes

Food Sources Food allergy can cause both immediate and delayed patterns of asthma. Immediate food reactions can cause sudden, dramatic and life-threatening asthma is one of the consequences of anaphylactic reactions to food. Delayed patterns of food allergy can cause chronic asthma and/or bronchitis and are among the most neglected causes of chronic "intrinsic" asthma.
More About Food Sources

Infection Every child every year will have one or more viral infections of the respiratory tract. Most are mild and short-lived. Some children develop breathing difficulties with wheezing during a viral infection and may need hospitalization.

Remove the original cause

Consider asthma to be an allergic disease and look at the air and food supplies for the triggers of asthma. Here is a simple problem-solving approach:

If asthmatic, then

Stop all smoking and association with smokers
Stop all use of volatile chemicals
If attacks of asthma are intermittent and related to airborne exposures then avoid the exposure or wear air-purifying filters when exposed and/or use preventive medications
If asthma attacks are seasonal and related to plant cycles, then get allergy tests and consider using preventive medication. If pollen allergy is the main and only cause of asthma, consider immunotherapy.
If asthma is chronic and tends to occur in all seasons and is not related to airborne exposure, then consider delayed pattern food allergy as the cause and do diet revision using Alpha Nutrition.

More About Air Sources

A comprehensive management plan will include solving the food allergy problem, solving airborne allergy and toxicity, and providing the right medication, at the right doses and at the right time when preventive efforts fail. The most serious airborne problems at home are cigarette smoke, dust, molds, and house dust mites.

It is always necessary to correct food problems by complete diet revision using the the Alpha Nutrition Program. A children's rescue starter pack combines this program with the book Feeding Children with a 500 Gram jar of Alpha ENF, our complete nutrition, food replacement formula. You can order a Children's Starter Pack and add the Book of Breathing for complete instructions. You can try the Alpha ENF. Find out if your child will accept the formula in juice so that his or her nutrition can be safely supplemented. Then decide when you are ready to begin. Advanced readers will want to read the Book of Allergy and Immunology.

See the book, Air and Breathing for detailed information about airborne infection, air quality and airborne hazards at home. The mechanisms of asthma are discussed and drug treatments reviewed. Order Air and Breathing or Download eBook

Food allergy and asthma is discussed in the book, Feeding Children

Helping Children Website was developed by Alpha Education, a division of Environmed Research Inc. Sechelt, B.C., Canada. Online Since 1995. Experts in Self-Managed Care. Experts in Elemental Nutrient Formulas. Feeding Children, Children and Family were written by Stephen Gislason MD. The latest editions were released in 2010. The Alpha Nutrition Program is required reading when diet revision is required to solve children's diseases.

Orders for printed books and nutrient formulas are placed at Alpha Online. eBook versions the books can be downloaded from Persona Digital, a separate online site for the download distribution of eBooks, music and other digital documents. Alpha Nutrition is a registered trademark of Environmed Research Inc. Click the yellow download buttons on the right to download PDF files. Click a book title to read selections from the book.

Feeding Children

	Children and Family
	Intelligence and Learning

Alpha Nutrition Program

Children Nutritional Rescue starts with a copy of the Alpha Nutrition Program, the book, Feeding Children that explains in detail food related problems in children and one 500 Gram jar of Alpha ENF. You can try the nutrient formula, evaluate its effects and learn how you can use it as a tool of nutritional therapy to help your health problem. Starter packs are sold at a discount to make it easy and affordable for you to learn more and try out the formula. Order Rescue Starter Pack