ASTHMA AND ALLERGIES

ASTHMA AND ALLERGIES

It is estimated that 12 million children suffer from asthma, and several thousand die every year. Let us declare an end to asthma in less than five years. Let us save children from the constant fear of suffocation because they do not recognize they are thirsty for water!

Asthma and allergies are indicators that the body has resorted to an increase in production of the neurotransmitter histamine, the sensor regulator of water metabolism and its distribution in the body.

It is recognized that asthmatics have an increase in histamine content of their lung tissue and that it is the histamine that regulates the bronchial muscle contraction. Since one of the sites for water loss through evaporation is in the lungs, bronchial constriction produced by histamine means less water evaporation during the act of breathinga simple natural maneuver to preserve the body water.

Histamine is an agent that, apart from its water regulatory role, has responsibilities for antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-foreign agents (chemicals and proteins) defense systems in the body. At a normal level of water content of the body, these actions are held at an imperceptive or unexaggerated level. At a dehydrated state of the body, to the point that the histamine activity becomes exaggerated for water regulation, an immune system activation of histamine-producing cells will release an exaggerated amount of the transmitter that is held in storage for its other functions.

It has been shown in animal models that histamine production in histamine-generating cells will decrease with an increase in the daily water intake. Both of these conditions should be regulated with an alert and determined increase in water intake. On average, these conditions respond after one to four weeks of water regulation of the body.

Mr. Peck, an asthmatic since childhood, who also became sensitive to all sorts of 'allergens,' is no longer in fear of these health problems. Mr. Paturis also testifies to the fact that his wife's allergic condition became less problematic. Jose Rivera, M.D., had for years suffered from allergies and asthma. He was severely allergic to cats. In fact, he would never go to a house where a cat was also kept. It seems he at one time got very sick after being exposed to a cat. As a result of using the new information about the relationship of dehydration to excess histamine production in the body, he has totally recovered from both of these conditions. To top it all, he now treats asthmatics with water and salt. His letter is on the next page.

Priscilla Preston's letter you have already seen. Joanie Winfield's letter is also printed below. I only discuss these persons because their letters testify to the fact that increased daily water intake has provided total relief from asthma and allergies in grown persons, even after many years of suffering from the problem.