The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-04-30

Some time ago an article on diet
to prevent and cure Hay Fever and
Asthma was printed in this paper.
Since then many people have asked
If it was necessary to diet in this
manner all the time. The answer to
this is NO only for short time be-
fore and during the attack. After
the system has been accustomed to
this diet and the disease has been re.
lieved, one food at time NAV be
added to the diet. If it is found that
one particular food is causing the
distress it should be eliminated alto
gether. The following editorial from
the "Good Health Magazine" for June
1928 is timely hint for those who
find dieting hard.
There are various forms of Asth-
ma, all of which are characterized
by obstructed breathing, and all are
unquestionably influenced more or
less by diet. A person who is subject
to experience an attack after over
eating to asthma from any cause is
likely to experience an attack after
over-eating. Eating heartily at night
frequently brings on an attack during
the night. This is true of persons in
whom the real cause of the attack is
reflex, as from adenoides or other
diseased conditions of the nasal cav
ity, and in cases of cardiac asthma,
as well as when the disease is pri-
marely due to errors in diet.
In the writer's experience, fully
nine-tenths of all cases of asthma
may be attributed to intestinal tox-
emia, or administration. Constipa-
ton, with the coated tongue, foul
breath, sallow complexion and highly
colored urine, which accompany in
tense toxemia, is prominent feature
in nearly all cases of chronic asthma.
Changing the intestinal flora and es-
tablishing normal colon activity will
secure prompt and permanent relief
in great majority of chronic asthma
cases in adults. The bowels must
move three times day, and the colon
must be kept so thoroly free from
decomposing residues that the stool
will have no putrid residue or am
moniacal odors.
A laxative, antitoxic diet and the
continued use of Lactose-Dextrine
will suppress intestinal putrefactions
and thus relieve the lungs of the ir-
ritation produced in the pulmonary
mucous membrane by the effort to
remove from the blood thru this chan
mel the offensive gaseous poisons de-
veloped in the colon. The fecal odor
of the breath is very pronounced in
many estimates. The attacks be-
ONE less frequent and finally cease,
and reappear only when the stools
become putrid thru errors in diet or
when one neglects to keep the colon
free from purifying residues.
Meats must, of course, be discard
ed. Eggs, If eaten at all, should be
used sparingly and great care is nee
essay to get them perfectly fresh.
It is as difficult, and requires as as
siduous attention, to keep the colon
free from pernicious organisms as
to keep a garden free from weeds.
A warm enema should be taken at
night to make sure that the colon
is completely evacuated until consti-
patton has been fully corrected and
the colon kept free from debris by
three free bowel movements daily.
The enema at night does not interfere
with the morning evacuation, but ra-
Their, aids by preventing constant ov-
er-distention of the colon; when this
condition exists the colon walls are
weakened by the production of am
monia and other poisonous products
which paralyze the bowel. The eve
ming enema leaves more or less water
in the colon which prevents the ex-
cessiV drying of the focal residue.