Foods To Avoid With Asthma

Processed Food

Processed food such as cured meats, frozen meals, and many packaged foods are serious triggers for severe asthma symptoms. These kinds of foods contain lots of artificial ingredients, colorings, flavorings, preservatives. They even have artificial sweeteners! This means processed foods can trigger asthma for a variety of reasons. Sulfites are often present in processed foods for example. Nitrates, which are often in hot dogs, salami, and other processed meats have also been connected to increased lung inflammation and asthma.

Those with asthma may also be sensitive to parabens, another preservative, and tartrazine, a dye used in sugary drinks and ice cream. Sugar-free processed food often contains aspartame, which many people are sensitive to, which means food with it is also at an increased risk of causing symptoms of asthma.

Wine

Adults drinking a glass of wine every so often with dinner is fine. Many even say it’s healthy thanks to the antioxidants wine contains, as well as other health benefits. However, wine has been linked to causing flare-ups of asthma symptoms, even as fast as within 1 hour of drinking a glass! According to experts, 30 percent of those who have asthma will experience flare-ups after drinking wine. Red wine is the most common trigger, though white wine also causes these reactions!

It’s hard to pin down a precise trigger for everyone. This is because wine contains many nutrients, minerals, and other ingredients. However, wines often contain sulfites, which is a big identified trigger for asthma attacks.