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It can be difficult to diagnose asthma, because its symptoms often resemble those of other respiratory or heart disease. The diagnosis is usually based on a description of symptoms, the set of medical history, physical examination and the results of some laboratory tests. Among diagnostic tests, include pulmonary function, blood tests, chest x-rays and allergy tests.

The pulmonary function represents a series of tests to measure lung function. The most common is the spirometry test, which uses a device called a spirometer to measure the quantity and flow (flow) of air entering the respiratory tract, then emerging. Evaluation of peak expiratory flow is another test to measure lung function. Using a peak flow meter, measure the rate at which air is expelled from the lungs. You can use this device to monitor asthma at home. Read the rest of this entry »

A food allergy occurs because of a hypersensitivity caused by taking or eating a certain food.

In young children, the most common allergies are caused by the following foods: eggs, milk, shellfish, nuts, citrus and tomatoes. Adults is less common in this type of allergy.

The person before making an allergic reaction to food, must have been previously exposed to such food at least once. Allergic symptoms appear the second time the person eats the food. This time, reacting antibodies that have occurred with the ingested food, histamines are released which give the reactions.

Symptoms may include:

• Itching in the mouth.
• Difficulty breathing.
• -Stomach pain.
• Vomiting.
• Diarrhea.
• Rash.
• Asthmatic bronchitis or asthma.
• Allergic rhinitis.

There is no medicine to prevent the onset of symptoms. But the picture can be prevented if detected what foods that cause the reaction and not consumed.

Similarly it is advisable to ask the doctor a drug, for use in an emergency and to counteract severe reactions that can cause a complication.

There are many people today suffer from gluten intolerance (Celiac disease or Celiac Sprue), the protein that is found mainly in wheat. It then produces damage to the villi of the small intestine, which play a role in digestion. When these hairs are inflamed and damaged, can not absorb food properly, with consequent diarrhea and malnutrition.

People with this type of intolerance may be more susceptible to osteoporosis because their own immune system to attack the bone, according to a new study.

Osteoporosis is known to be a risk to suffer gluten intolerance to a certain failure to absorb calcium and vitamin D. But a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that these patients produce antibodies which attack a key protein that help maintain healthy bones.

The good news is that according to the researchers, this would be easy to treat with drugs that prevent bone loss. This could also explain why people with osteoporosis with digestive problems, would not respond well to calcium and vitamin D.

Apparently researchers have found a protein called osteoprotegerin, which would be the key between celiac disease and osteoporosis.

It is therefore important that people who suffer from this condition care by limiting their food consumption of wheat, oats and rye and foods prepared with these inputs.

Check also the state of bone densitometry in a regularly could help, exercise and maintain a healthy weight.