For those of you who have asthma, of course understand how suffering from an asthma attack when you relapse. If not treated properly, asthma can be a disease that disrupts activity, productivity, and even sleep sufferers. However, vitamin D can be called to overcome this airway disorder.
Asthma has generally been suffered since childhood. Some children recover from their asthma. However, there are also those who still carry asthma to adulthood, with symptoms that are heavier and more often relapse.
Various drugs have been consumed to treat asthma attacks. But this method turned out to be not enough to overcome the attacking asthma. What is more important to do is how to prevent asthma from returning.
As soon as it interferes with asthma, this disease does not only cause sufferers to spend deeply for treatment, but their quality of life generally decreases. This is what causes many researchers vying to find new ways to prevent recurrence of asthma attacks.
New hope for people with asthma
Recently, it was found a glimmer of hope for people with asthma, namely vitamin D, which can reduce the risk of moderate to severe asthma attacks by 50 percent.
Researchers from Queen Mary University, London, found that taking vitamin D supplements along with medications to treat asthma can help reduce the risk of asthma attacks that cause sufferers to be taken to an Emergency Installation (ED).
Not only that, consumption of vitamin D supplements can also reduce the use of steroid drugs - both tablets and injections - by 30 percent. Before the facts about the benefits of vitamin D to treat asthma were found, steroids were the 'hero' for this disease.
Because as we have seen, steroids are indeed known as a "god" drug that can be a solution to various diseases. But this is not without consequences.
Long-term, high-dose systemic steroid use - especially without prescriptions and doctor's instructions - can cause a variety of adverse side effects.
Various side effects such as increased blood pressure and blood sugar, osteoporosis, increased appetite and weight, mood changes, muscle weakness, blurred vision, increased hair growth in the body, easy bruising, swelling, zits, gastric irritation, insomnia, cataracts , and glaucoma.
Vitamin D intake to overcome asthma attacks
During this time vitamin D is only known as a vitamin that can be useful to help the growth of bones and teeth. But today, many other uses of vitamin D are beginning to be known, one of which is to increase the immune system.
With an increased immune system, the body will be more resistant to virus attacks that can trigger an asthma attack. Seeing the results of this promising study, there is nothing wrong for asthma sufferers to check vitamin D levels in the blood.
If the amount of vitamin D is low as that of most Indonesians, optimizing blood vitamin D levels is highly recommended to prevent asthma attacks.
Vitamin D can be obtained from various food ingredients such as salmon, sardines, tuna, cod liver oil, shellfish, shrimp, egg yolks, mushrooms, and milk fortified with vitamin D.
When viewed from these types of food, indeed Indonesian people do not consume food sources of vitamin D in large quantities. Therefore, it is not surprising if the levels of vitamin D in the blood have not reached the optimal limit.
Not only that, the fear of skin becoming black has become one of the things that prevents most Indonesians from getting enough vitamin D.
In fact, vitamin D can be obtained free of charge when skin that is not protected by clothing or sunscreen is exposed to sunlight. You can sunbathe when the sun is not too hot, at 07.00-09.00 WIB in the morning.
Asthma can be very annoying if you relapse continuously. That's why vitamin D is needed to overcome it. If you have tried this method but the asthma attack will not subside, you can consult a doctor. Usually, the doctor will prescribe supplements for consumption.
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