Asthma Cure

Common Asthma Cure

The bad news is that there is no asthma cure. The good news is that asthma can be treated with medication supplied by your doctor. There are two main types of asthma medication: anti-inflammatory, and bronchodilators. More details can be found in this website. If your asthma symptom is triggered by environment irritants, your best asthma cure would be to simply avoid those irritants. Although this is not a real asthma cure, it is a practical method of asthma relief.

Question: Can My Doctor Cure Asthma?
Answer: The short answer is unfortunately NO.

For a disease like asthma to be cured, doctors and scientist have to know the cause. In asthma, while we know a lot about the relationship between the immune system and asthma, for example, we do not know why this process occurs in particular individuals.

Asthma is an inflammatory process. While many of the medications used to treat asthma decrease inflammation, none actually cure the inflammation.
While there is no cure for asthma currently, asthma can be controlled with proper treatment. Medications can prevent or relieve asthma symptoms. Asthma care plans can help you learn what to do in an asthma attack, when you need to adjust your medication, and when you need to call your doctor. You can also also can learn to identify your asthma triggers and avoid them.

Asthma Cure

With education regarding triggers, medications and your specific asthma management strategy, most people can effectively control asthma and live a normal, active life.

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Free yourself of allergies and asthma once and for all with Dr. Pescatore’s breakthrough program

” Dr. Fred Pescatore’s The Allergy and Asthma Cure reveals a unique and revolutionary understanding of the underlying conditions of allergy and asthma-from food triggers to the environment to nutritional deficiencies. His integrative program of both alternative and traditional treatments can dramatically improve health and vitality, safely and soundly. This book will have a prominent place in my library and I highly recommend it! ”
-Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., author of the bestselling The Fat Flush Plan

“Conventional medicine has largely shrugged its shoulders in confusion about the causes of allergies and asthma in millions of people. In this book Dr. Fred Pescatore deals with the roots of these modern epidemics, drawing on his clinical experience, and he provides clear recommendations for turning back the tide and restoring health.”
- Jack Challem, author of the bestselling Syndrome X and The Inflammation Syndrome

“The Allergy and Asthma Cure is the book we have all been waiting for. Dr. Pescatore manages, in a concise manner, to summarize all the facts and presents a comprehensive healing guide that incorporates both conventional and alternative approaches. A must-read for those dealing with these issues.”
-Artur Spokojny, M.D., F.A.C.C., Medical Director of Integrative Medicine of Manhattan, Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

“I believe that The Allergy and Asthma Cure holds the key to understanding how nutritional medicine can really work for you. Allergies (from skin conditions to seasonal types) and asthma can be cured, not just held at bay. This book shows the way. Dr. Pescatore is truly a healer.”
-Roberta Flack, singer/songwriter

“I have seen firsthand how The Allergy and Asthma Cure has changed people’s lives for the better. I have started using his treatment protocols for my own patients with a remarkable success rate, and best of all with no side effects. Many of my patients are getting off their allergy and asthma medications completely. I strongly recommend this book to anyone with allergies or asthma.”
-Dana G. Cohen, M.D., board-certified, Internal Medicine

“This book is for anyone willing to give up his or her life as an asthmatic. I had tried every drug and treatment available and the asthma only got worse. Under Dr. Pescatore’s care, I began to see results within six weeks. It’s been over two years now living without an attack. His approach has changed the way I live.”
-Paul Goldman, patient

Deep Cure for “Asthma”

Superman had kryptonite. Samson got a haircut. Me? Dust mites. Those little scourges have made me asthmatic for the past 10 years — irritating my breathing, leading to countless sinus infections, and causing two episodes wherein I passed out from coughing. They limit the amount of exercise I can do at the gym and make me think twice about playing a game of pickup soccer. But worst of all, they curb the amount of time I can run around the house with my young daughter.

I’m not alone in my suffering. According to the Mayo Clinic, asthmatics are one of the fastest-growing medical demographics in the U.S., with roughly 20 million people afflicted in 2008.

Irritants are all around us. Everything from cold air to cat dander can send an asthmatic’s immune system into overdrive, producing histamines (natural chemicals your body uses to fight off outside intruders — instigating the itch in your lungs) and causing your bronchial tubes to swell and constrict.

Antihistamines, antibiotics, and two sinus surgeries provided me some relief, but nothing stuck. Finally, after I woke my wife up at three in the morning with a coughing fit one night — again — we had both had enough. The next day, after some Google searching, she told me that she had found my next vacation: two weeks 440 feet below the ground in an old salt mine in Wieliczka, Poland.

The Science
In 1958, Polish professor Mieczyslaw Skulimowski realized that our lungs and sinuses respond well to the cool, damp air in salt mines, also rich with sodium, magnesium, and selenium. He opened the first mine treatment center at Wieliczka in 1964, and it has been going strong ever since. Magnesium, it was discovered, prevents the spasms that provoke asthma attacks by keeping the smooth-muscle lining of the lung from contracting. Selenium is an antioxidant that studies have shown breaks down leukotrienes, compounds that irritate sinuses and lungs (similar to what the asthma drug Singulair does). And salt is a natural antibacterial agent, which can help prevent sinus and chest infections from spreading.

“After one treatment, patients report needing less medicine,” said Dr. Jolanta Czerwik, one of the physicians at the Wieliczka mine. “After two trips, research shows a 70 percent improvement, and after a third, asthma generally goes into remission.” When I asked her how it works she told me that “the body can only heal so much, so fast. It gives your immune system a chance to catch up. Afterward your body is trained to deal with your natural surroundings.”

My allergist back home, Dr. Robert Eitches, was also encouraging. “Being in a pollutant-free environment for a long period of time generally would be good for the lungs and sinuses,” he said.

I was desperate, so that was all the convincing I needed. The next thing I knew I was being herded into a cagelike elevator and shot into an 800-year-old mine.

The Treatment
My new subterranean digs felt a lot like a luxury spa, making my 14-day treatment downright pleasant. One room featured a relaxing pool with a waterfall fountain, and one of the dining rooms, the Jan-Haluszka Chamber, was adorned with three huge crystal chandeliers and had hosted several foreign dignitaries including former president George W. Bush.

But on my first day I quickly learned that getting well inside the mine is very similar to training for a marathon. “The air is the answer, so we must get as much of it through you as possible,” my instructor Marzena Boron insisted. For six and a half hours, the other eight patients and I were shuttled from yoga class, where we learned stretches that caused us to use our diaphragms rather than our chest muscles to breathe, increasing breathing efficiency; to treadmill-jogging; and then aerobics, which pumped gallons of the special air through our lungs in seconds.

The treatment seemed to be working. My postnasal drip disappeared, I never felt like coughing or sneezing, and while my lungs remained somewhat raspy, I never had problems with exercises that would have killed me aboveground. But I was most impressed with the results of my peak flow test, which measures how many liters of air I push through my lungs per minute. For my height and age, I was told that 545 is a good number (at home I typically score between 250 and 275). My average inside the mine, taken over the two weeks, was 355. Once I even broke 400.

For the first few weeks after returning to smoggy Los Angeles, I felt great, and my doctor noticed a 20 percent increase in my breathing capacity. If it lasts, I’m seriously considering going back next year for round two, if just to keep from waking my wife at 3 a.m.