Testimonials on asthma dehydration link

Following is a list of testimonials on how asthma & dehydration appeared to be symptoms of dehydration or dehydration effects.

The following contributors testified to the idea that what causes asthma was nothing more than dehydration & certain minerals.

Healthy Water contains a page on what causes asthma / & the connection between asthma & dehydration. LINK for a more complete explanation of the asthma dehydration link.

First, a brief explanation of how/why dehydration effects asthma formation.

When we start to dehydrate, histamine production increases to conserve water in our bodies. This is vital as our lungs must remain moist to work properly.

Excess histamine, a defense against losing more water makes it difficult to breath. This impediment to breathing triggers what we know as an asthma attack

Histamine also stimulate mucous production to help seal in moisture but that too leads to increased breathing difficulties.

Testimonials on dehydration, & asthma

Also note that there are numerous testimonials But we simply chose some representative ones.

1)Asthma really helped, February 6, 2002 By A Customer

I have had a chronic cough for years, a form of cough-variant asthma. I also am on a salt-free, or low-salt diet. According to the author, a low or no-salt diet is a trigger for asthma symptoms, for your body can't hold in the water you need and becomes dehydrated. He explains as we become dehydrated we produce a large amount of histamine, which creates back pain & inflamed joints, allergies and asthma.

He also explains how the lungs need water almost more than any other part of the body, and get tight and sensitive when the body lacks sufficient water. You also have to get off potassium, such as from orange juice and bananas for some people these are also triggers because they unbalance the salt/potassium balance. To make a long story short, I started drinking the 8-10 glasses of water he recommends, with a pinch of salt (only use sea-salt) after every two glasses, and 1/2 t. a day of sea salt.

Within 2 hours the tightness in my chest got better, and within one day I had completely stopped coughing. I kept thinking this was too simple to be true, but now, ten days later, I have almost complete relief from asthma symptoms.

This book really makes sense & the information is presented well. Oh, and another benefit - all my lower back pain went away overnight, after months of pain, chiropractors, stretching, and everything else I could think of. He explains how lower back pain comes from dehydration, that occurs well before we even feel thirsty.

It does take focus to drink that much water, without any tea, caffeine, or other kinds of drinks, but it is worth it. I have recommended this book to everyone I know and have taken it to my doctor to read. There are lots of testimonials in this book from doctors and clinics all around the country who have had the same excellent results using the recommendations in this book.

It is not surprising that the above writer mentions that several conditions might clear up when you properly hydrate because dehydration effects many systems at once.

2) Yes, it is hard to accept but it has relieved my asthma greatly May 25, 2006, Customer

After a lifetime of being told that salt is bad for me, I finally let go and started to use celtic sea salt liberally (as prescribed in the book).

At first I only drank the water, but adding the salt completely maximized my progress. At 4 separate times this past weekend, I stopped my own asthma attacks at each onset. It took me about 7-10 minutes each time. It took a lot for me not to use my inhaler, and to just give the water & salt a chance to work. I am extremely grateful and rather emotional about it, since I thought I would be on my proventil inhaler for the rest of my life.

The inhaler has caused a number of side effects, and I am now planning a detox to remove the residue of this drug from my body, which I've been dependent on for more than 27 years. And I've only been doing this seriously for 2 weeks, (and getting better with each day). I thank "Dr.B" for giving me my health back (along with hundreds of others whose testimonials I've read on the www.watercure2.com site). These are the same testimonials I was so compelled to read again and again, because I just could not believe and accept that something so simple could cure this disease that left me so weak and scared about the future of my health. Not to mention, very likely preventing other diseases I would be on the road towards.

I suppose this is my own testimonial, because it really happened, and I hope that readers searching for an answer will forget their fears (that it won't work) and try it. Yes, it is still hard even for me to believe...even though it continues to work for me. But I do know for sure that I will never stop Dr.B's water & salt prescription. I will say this - if you want your health back, just take it back by taking action.

The above miracle cure may not be as shocking as on first blush. There are numerous similar accounts attesting to how quickly and dramatically symptoms of dehydration like severe asthma are improved after a short time on the “water cure.” These results can’t be assumed to be typical as the issue of what causes asthma may be more complex and so too the issue of remediation. Yet…

3) Major life Improvement!, May 20, 2002 zippynumbat" (Redmond, WA USA)

This review is from: Your Body's Many Cries for Water (Paperback) I admit, I was skeptical. I felt like I would be silly not to try it, though--I have suffered with asthma for fifteen years, and this was such a simple thing. I gave up caffeine and aspartame, and I drank the prescribed water. It took about two months, but my asthma has dramatically improved. I was a two-to three time a day user of an albuterol inhaler, along with two different steroid inhalers. I have eliminated all but a minimum dose of one steroid inhaler, and I almost never need the albuterol. During allergy season, yet!

This book gets good marks for its advice to drink more water, but it is not particularly well written. Some of what he writes about sounds particularly far-fetched, and I am still skeptical about a lot of what he says. Still, it's hard to argue with success. If you have suffered with asthma, this book is definately worth a try.

Even if you feel that some of the claims Dr. Batmanghelidj makes might be a bit outlandish, remember they are all based on his experience, scientific reasoning & numerous witnesses. Remember too that water is important for all physical systems so the lack of it may indeed lead to seemingly unrelated symptoms of dehydration from asthma to hypertension to ulcers.

Dr. Batmanghelidj's reccomendations work!, February 1, 2002 By A Customer

A nutritionist gave me her copy of Dr. Batmanghelidj's book The ABCs of Asthma, Allergies and Lupus to read because my 5 year old daughter suffers from both allergies and asthma. I was initially sceptical but decided to try Dr. Batmanghelidj's recommendations. After one day of drinking water and putting a small amount of sea salt on my daughter's tongue we took her off her daily inhaler and antihistamine. Her symptoms disappeared literally overnight and after one week, her school teacher commented that her concentration had improved along with her handwriting. I would recommend this book to anyone with allergies or asthma. The treatment is simple, safe and free.

4) B. IVEY

Great Book. Simple to follow, highly recommended. Much safer than steroids and beta 2 agonist which lead to chronic problems with continued use.

5) Great but don’t stop here, February 19, 2007 Meijer Goldstein (New York, NY)

I have developed infectious Asthma from an Upper Respiratory Infection a couple years ago. The Water helped a lot, but if anything cures it, it will be the 12 week Zithromax regimen advocated by Dr.Hahns research. Search for Infectious Asthma on the web to find the regimen. In a nutshell, I take 500mg Zithromax for 1st 3 days, then for the next 11 weeks, you take 750mg of zithromax one day per week. After the 2nd day of starting the regimen, I feel much better and the symptoms have all but disappeared.

6) Good advice, but add magnesium for even better results, May 26, 2005 D. R Schryer (Hampton, VA United States)

There is significant evidence that the root cause of many, if not most, cases of asthma (and many allergies as well) is deficiency of magnesium. This fact is discussed in detail by Dr. Carolyn Dean in her excellent book The Miracle of Magnesium. Dr. Dean recommends 600 mg of supplemental magnesium daily. People with asthma who follow Dr. Dean's advice about daily magnesium supplementation often improve dramatically even if they have continued to struggle with asthma under other treatments which omit magnesium supplementation.

If you are suffering from asthma please read Dr. Dean's excellent book and follow her advice regarding daily magnesium supplementation. It may well be the most important thing you will ever due to relieve this terrible ailment. By the way, although a variety of magnesium supplements are available, and beneficial, chelated magnesium -- which is readily available in most health food stores -- is the most effective.

Just need to add that you should also add a little sea salt to attack most dehydration effects.

7) Water, You are not Sick, You are Thirsty, May 22, 2008 Abraham Yaheh (Copenhagen, Denmark)

The book is simply fantastic health hand book. It helped me cure my many years problem of Asthma. I am now happy and healthy.

8) 5 stars for content--2 for style, January 14, 2000 Matthew Christian Dallman (Chicago, IL USA)

Let me begin by saying that as a diagnosed asthmatic since age 3, Dr. B's ideas have--amazingly!--been the *only ones to ever suggest that asthma can be cured.*

And while I can't say it is 100% gone, my asthma is SOOO much better than it was using white man's medicine--you know, inhalers, prenizone, shots, etc. 20 years of that left me wheezing all the time. 1 month of water took care of it by and large, with occasional recurrances.

I would love to be an out an out believer in water. Dr. B certainly promises a lot with this book. My hunch is that he right on with most of it. I FEEL so much better since I started drinking at least 80 oz. of water daily.

It's just so simple, like he says. I mean, like plants, humans need water. Without water, plants shrivel and dry and die--is that really much different than what happens to dehydrated people as they age?

But the books reads like a 12th grade science project. With the exception of the letters from doctors and patients, and his own research into peptic ulcers (which DO seem grounded in scientific inquiry), I don't have the feeling that the rest is on a solid scientific ground. Let me be clear about it--my own experiences and my intuition tells me that Dr. B. is correct and justified to proclaim water as miracle. But the book itself, and the style its presented in don't by themselves give that degree of credibility.

And he really could use a good copy editor and some advice to substitute his greatly overused "paradigm" word for "approach", because there is nothing world-view or all-encompassing about water, as "paradigm" is defined (inaccurately--read Thomas Kuhn's original work and try to come up with that definition! Just try!) No, drinking and studying water and its effects are more about approach than "big meta-idea" of the new paradigm.

Dr. B. is to be commended for this work. It has helped me immeasurably. It's a good book, but it demands follow up, further documentation, which might include footnotes and endnotes published with the work for more clarification (an issue he was to work out with his publisher--negotiate, man!) and all in all needs a less dogma and more explanation.

But thank you, Dr. Batmanghelidj for this work. It is much needed. It is so good that we need more of it! Keep it coming!

Asthma + Salt Water Cure, April 26, 2003

With all that Dr. Batmanghelidj contributes to the understanding of effects of dehydration & curing dehydration symptoms, I have to wonder about above writer’s focus. Firstly, the writing is a bit difficult to read. However, as suggested on other pages, it is nearly impossible to conduct valid experiments on the effects of dehydration on long term health. Who would fund studies on water?

9) "ohbystars" (Wilmington, DE USA)

This review is from: Your Body's Many Cries for Water (Paperback) I was privy to an excerpt of this book about sea salt added to water, along with increasing the amount of actual water taken during 24 hours as a remedy for asthma. I read the explanation of asthma and its relation to dehydration and found it quite compelling. I have recently developed allergic asthma from smoking. (I am now a recent non-smoker).

On one particular day, I was on day 3 of an incredibly difficult allergic response. Wheezing constantly, unable to sleep because my breathing was so compromised due to over-production of phlegm and mucous, constant coughing and congestion; I was in hell and ready to try anything.

So I tried this "water cure" and my experience was this:

Within hours, I was hacking up copious amounts of phlegm for the next 24 hours as the phlegm loosened its grip on my bronchii. I know that water would thin mucosal secretions but that didn't mean anything about expelling them from my bronchii. This time, I was actually expelling great amounts of phlegm from my chest instead of a constant, non-productive coughing and horrible wheezing.

My breathing did improve but it still wasn't 100% mostly due to the fact that my body was still over-producing histamines, etc. (As a new non-smoker, my lungs and bronchii have much more to do to right now than a non-smoker with allergic asthma)

The next week, I had another flare up and decided to go the route of medications (inhalers, anti-histamines, allergy meds) instead of the salt water. The improvement in my breathing from this cocktail of medicinal chemicals was LESS than it was with the water.

All this medication and I was still over-producing histamines, mucous, phlegm, wheezing and suffering congestion. The only difference was that I could feel those damn strings of phlegm vibrate in my bronchii when I forcefully exhaled instead of just feeling myself wheeze because the medications were keeping my airways more opened. I was not, however, expelling more phlegm or feeling it dissipate. Can you imagine having your airways opened only to feel like they are covered in tacky glue? That's what I felt like with the meds and not enough water in my body.

I am now taking my meds and using the water cure while my body goes through this smokers detox and this seems to be helping considerably. I know that proper hydration will contribute to a speedy recovery from all this.

Based on my experiences, which to me were dramatic, I bought this book. I totally support the importance of water for health.

As a side note, I work in a hospital and I see patients all the time that are given saline fluid (salt water fluid) through an IV needle because they are dehydrated and do not know it. On average, the better hydrated ones only voluntarily take in about 36 oz of fluid (This is about 1 quart) per 24 hours (and some of that is coffee!) and most never, ever drink water. This, combined with the lack of fresh fruits and vegetables (which contribute to hydration in our bowels during digestion) --- honestly - all the while, these patients would swear up and down to you that they aren't thirsty at all!

Can you imagine someone telling you that you are only going to have 1 quart of fluid per day? You would tell them they were crazy, wouldn't you? And yet, this is what we do to ourselves without thinking about it.

Life is sustained by what we nourish our bodies with. When did good health become more complicated than this?

Of all of the contributors on the effects of dehydration on patients, “Ohbystars” really has his finger on some important considerations. He also highlights the terrible ignorance of many health professionals on the importance of proper hydration especially for sick individuals.

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