Here are some facts about
relationship between coffee and asthma. Regular coffee drinkers have about 1/3 less asthma symptoms than those of non-coffee drinkers according to a Harvard researcher who studied 20,000 people. For
past several years, many experts have touted how horrible coffees were for our health and that
drinking of caffeinated coffee should be immediately ceased. Recently, however, several studies have shown that caffeinated coffee can actually be extremely good for people. One of
groups of people who can reap health benefits from drinking caffeinated coffee is those people who suffer from asthma.
In particular, drinking caffeinated coffee in
situation of an emergency onset of asthma can allow
patient to breathe easily. Doctors have recommended coffee as an emergency way of treating asthma patients who find themselves with a sudden onset and no medication for many, many years.
In Scotland, as evidenced by
Edinburgh Medical Journal, asthma and coffee are good for each other. While not recommended for exclusive treatment, one to two cups of stron coffee may help open airways.
This coffee and asthma treatment can help a patient who is suffering from an onset of asthma symptoms and finds himself without an inhaler breathe more easily until
inhaler can be obtained. This emergency treatment has proven extremely effective due to
similarities between caffeine and a tried-and-true asthma medication known as theophylline.
The similarities between these two chemicals lead doctors to routinely advise patients who are about to undergo tests for lung function to avoid coffee and other caffeinated beverages for one to two days prior to
time of
test.
Several large coffee and asthma studies conducted in
past few years have examined
relationship between drinking coffee and
prevalence of asthma. A study of over seventy thousand Italians showed that there was a significant reduction in
appearance of asthma amongst patients who would regularly drink coffee.