Does asthma limits chocolates and other sweets?
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No, asthma and chocolate, as well as other sweets, are not related.  Asthma is a condition of your respiratory system, not your gastronomic system.  You're fine to eat what you please as long as you don't have an allergic reaction.
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Milk products are a culprit in many people.  Be aware of additives too...many of us asthmatics are sensitive to sulfur dioxide and many of its derivatives.  There is sulfur dioxide in soda and dried fruits.\nGood luck with your son, I hope controlling his asthma is easy.\nIf you haven't already been to this site...its informative and helpful.\nhttp://www.asthma.com/asthma_triggers.html
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Please start by seeing a doctor.  If your family has good insurance (or Medicaid -- most states covers kids above the poverty level), I would start with an allergist or a pulmonologist.  If you lack insurance, there are often community clinics where you can go for treatment.\n\nAsthma is a chronic disease that isn't really cured but can often be very effectively controlled.  Poor control causes many issues (and you know that!) and can even be life threatening.\n\nHow is it managed?  The first step is to try and figure out what causes your asthma.  This can often be an allergy (although asthma can also be triggered by other things such as cold air and exercise).  Regardless of the trigger, a doctor will work with you to reduce that trigger.  (In the case of allergies, this can involve everything from covering the mattress if the allergy is to dust to nasal sprays to allergy shots to limiting your exposure to certain things).\n\nThe doctor may also prescribe a slower acting medicine to help reduce the frequency and severity of attacks.  This most often an inhaler but could also be a pill.  And this is important:  asthma seems to sort of feed on itself and treatment can help reduce the inflamation.  Also important is to understand that this will not stop an astma attack that you justt started having -- it takes days to have an impact.\n\nIn addition, a doctor may presecribe a fast acting inhaler (often called a rescue inhaler).  This is designed to be used to treat a current astma attack.\n\nSo the plan:  a) reduce the triggers that cause the asthma; b) longer term medication to help soothe the inflamation and reduce the severity/frequemcy; and c) a rescue inhaler when a and b fail.  If you find yourself using the rescue inhaler often, contact your doctor as the first two steps probably need refined.\n\nMake sense? Good luck!
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The literature says NO. My experience says YES.\n\nEverytime I eat chocolate I get pimples myself.\n\nThe literature must not be right all the time.
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I am not allergic to carrots, but citrus. But I thought your allergy was interesting so I looked it up.\n\nAllergic reactions to carrots and celery are very uncommon in the United States, however, reactions to carrots affect up to 25 percent of food-allergic individuals in Europe, and are associated with cross sensitivity to celery, certain spices, mugwort, and birch pollen.\n\nSeveral European researchers were recently able to prove the allergenicity of carrot for the first time in a study from the August Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology.\n\nBarbara Ballmer-Weber, MD, and colleagues from University Hospital in Zurich, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany and the University of Vienna, sought to confirm sensitization to carrot by conducting several different tests on 26 patients with a history of allergic reactions to carrots.\n\nTwo food challenges were performed. The first was a double-blinded, placebo-controlled food challenge (DBPCFC), where subjects were given two different drinks: one was an active drink containing carrot and the other was a placebo drink. The second food challenge performed was a spit and chew test. The patients with negative reactions in the DBPCFC chewed 5 g of raw carrot and spit it out. If they did not experience a reaction, they chewed and swallowed 5 g, then 10 g, and then 20 g of raw carrot. Skin tests and in vitro blood tests were performed to check for the presence of IgE, the antibody that produces allergic reactions. In vitro testing was also performed to see if allergic sensitivity to birch pollen initially triggered the sensitivity to carrots in these individuals.\n\nIn the first food challenge, researchers found that 20 patients reacted to the carrot-containing drink but not the placebo. Four patients responded to neither the carrot-containing drink nor the placebo drink. In the spit and chew test, three of these latter four subjects noted no symptoms. The fourth patient reported symptoms of oral allergy syndrome (itching of the throat and mouth) after swallowing 5 g of raw carrot. Researchers found that all patients who had positive DBPCFC's also had positive skin test results to raw carrot, while all patients who had negative DBPCFC's had negative skin tests and did not have subsequent reactions to the ingestion of carrot. Additionally, all of the carrot-allergic patients also had birch pollen specific IgE. However, in vitro testing of the serum from the carrot-allergic patients revealed that allergic binding could not be blocked by birch pollen proteins.\n\nFor the first time researchers were able to confirm carrot allergy in 20 of 26 European patients using DBPCFC protocol with carrot. Although these allergic patients produced IgE to both carrot and birch pollens, in vitro testing seemed to discount the theory that exposure to airborne birch pollen always precedes and predisposes allergic patients to the development of carrot allergies.\n\nIt depends what the mechanism of your carrot allergy is.  It has to be determined whether you have a true carrot allergy or a condition referred to as oral itch syndrome which is actually a reaction to tree pollen allergens due to conserved tree allergen proteins found in carrots that occurs in individuals with seasonal allergic rhinitis to tree pollen.  Cooking carrots usually denatures the proteins so they are no longer "allergenic".  Beta-carotene has not been linked as a major allergen in carrot allergic individuals.  You need to see an allergist to clarify what is going on.
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No- if you are allergic to something you should not consume it.  You could have an allergic reaction that just taking over the counter allergy medicine would not help to stop it.
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The problems is that the chocolate (just as oranges and shrimps, which is a surprise for lot's of people) is so-called "an absolute allergen". Whenever you eat chocolate your stomach gets micro-wounds, which are not noticeable for any healthy person. But there are lot's of people who are extremely sensible to these products, especially children.  Chocolate milk contains cocoa-powder (but no cocoa-butter) diluted by milk (which is often powder milk, not the real one) and lot's of other ingredients. \nSo it can be that your daughter is also allergic for chocolate milk, but due to the slightly different ingredients her reaction is much milder and hardly can be noticeable.\nIt's really better to keep her away from the chocolate, but you also can ask your doctor to check her stool for bacteria (as diarrhea can be caused by the luck of healthy bacteria + the allergy itself).\nGood luck with it!
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Unfortunately not but the symptoms can be controlled by medication and elimination of allergens.\n\nhttp://www.healthywomen.org/healthtopics/allergies/keyqa
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Pop isn't good for him anyway! I don't know about allergies, but it is full of chemicals and sugar.\nWater is best, but if he really must have something sweet, get him natural fruit juice instead! My 3-year old hates pop, and I'm so happy about it!
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Yes.Especially asthma.Contact your attorney.
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Chocolate contains many, many chemicals and components.  The one that seems to give most people trouble is caffiene.  Do you have this same reaction when you drink soda or coffee?
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o yes, I had the chocolate raspberry last night.  It cured my munchies and choclate craving quite nicely.
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Certain foods, like orange-juice, cause the body to produce a lot of mucus.  Asthma causes a restriction in the airways of the lung.  So when you eat a problem food, it makes it even harder to clear your airway.
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That song from "Mary Poppins" was written when most medicines were liquid measured by the teaspoon, and even the flavored ones were pretty awful stuff.\n\nNow, the front-running baby boomers have given us soft gels, capsules, pills, and relatively decent tasting liquids.  Even cod liver oil and pure cranberry juice come in soft gels.\n\nAs for the spoonful of sugar, my thought is "No."  Some of the yuckiest medicine I ever had to take for asthma was not alleviated by sugar or honey.  I doubt Jack Daniels woud have helped :)
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My Grandmother also was a diabetic.  There are all kinds of "sweets" that are safe but not made with sugar.  In the candy isle or the specialty foods section of the grocery store there are sugar free candies.  In the bakery they have sugar free pies.  Ask the baker if there are deserts that they can make that would be easy to transport.  They even have sugar free ice cream.  I used to love to bring these special treats to her.  She really appreciated them.
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Perhaps in a les tolerant country.  But, no way baby.  Chocolate should be eaten in small amounts.  It is beneficial to the mood and has antioxidants, YUMMMM!\n\nStay away from milk chocolate.  Eat dark chocolates w/ high Cocoa content.  Enjoy w/o guilt!!
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While not a health food, we don't need to feel guilty about a little chocolate.  Most info I've found says that there are antioxidants in cacao (basic ingregient in chocolate) that are thought to help prevent heart disease and cancer but that more proof is needed.  The sugar used to make the cacao less bitter may not be so good for our health, but happy feeling that something so yummy gives me can't be bad for relieving the stress of cancer.