Asthma and IBS
Understand the Cause Having IBS means that your GI tract has been damaged through the means of an unhealthy diet, drugs or a significant event in your life. This causes the intestines to become inflamed and it creates microscopic holes. When undigested matters enter into the bloodstream via these holes, the immune system begins to attack them by means of antibodies. This results in the production of histamine.
Histamine causes many types of symptoms such as stomach pain but the more serious problems are like asthma. Anti-histamines can only provide a short period of relief as the body is still producing histamines when attacking the food matter in the blood stream. Important Facts Milk is also one of the largest contributing factors to the onset of asthma and other allergies. Eliminate milk from your diet if you find that you are beginning to have asthma-like symptoms or already have it. Another important note is that eventhough yogurt has probiotics, it still contains dairy products and will cause symptoms similar to the ingestion of other diary products like cheese. Some alternatives for these diary products is almond or soy milk. These products allow you to drink milk made by other products other than cow's milk. Often those with asthma have no problems drinking these types of diary products. Specialty stores use to be the only stores carrying these products but now the large big box stores also often carry these products.
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