Ask for allergy tests

Occasionally, people with asthma find that the common agents and irritants don’t trigger their condition,

and when they start to keep a journal they find that specific types of food are always associated with their asthmatic episodes.

In these cases you should make an appointment with your doctor and ask to be referred to a dietician who can perform allergy tests.

These tests most commonly involve a number of skin prick tests where a tiny amount of the ingredient in question is applied to the skin just underneath the topmost layer.

If you are allergic to the particular ingredient then you will have an instantaneous reaction and the area of skin around the skin prick will become inflamed. Because such a tiny amount is used it will not affect your asthma in any way. After this, you will then know exactly what triggers your condition.

The sooner you find out which foods or individual ingredients trigger your asthma, the sooner you can cut them out of your diet or reduce the amount you consume until you can tolerate it without having an asthmatic episode.

Common food allergies associated with asthma include wheat, soy, corn starch, peanuts, eggs, milk and other dairy products.