Reactive Airway Disease...dairy Free Diet?

Reactive Airway Disease is not yet asthma. And it won't necessarily turn into asthma either. My 9 month old threw up bottles of formula full of mucous - yuck! He was on albuteral and steroids for a time too. But he never developed asthma, and he's grown up now.

I didn't change the formula. I just let him grow out of it and managed it with the doctor.

I have no idea if changing the formula will make a difference or not. I just want you to know that reactive airway disease doesn't automatically mean she'll have asthma.

Dawn

I have Asthma.
Have had it since I was a child.
Each person is different, per their Asthma.
But for me personally, at no time... has dairy or wheat affected or triggered or exacerbated my Asthma. I can have and eat, all those things... and it does not affect my condition.
For me, personally, per foods, it is Sulphites or Sulfa medications, that can trigger my Asthma. As well as alcohol. Even mouthwash.
Then, getting colds and the weather, can also trigger it, in me.

Online, you can look up the various Asthma associations or American Lung Association etc.
And, talk to your Doctor etc. or get referred to a Specialist.

Asthma, causes the bronchial airways, to get inflamed. Hence, the airways gets... constricted. Hence, it affects breathing etc. Hence, things like Pulmicort and Albuterol... serves to, reduce... that constriction and inflammation of the airways. Hence, improving breathing ability.

You need to talk to a professional Nutritionist AND a Specialist.
IF.... foods are affecting her condition or triggering it. IF that is the case.
Everyone, is different.
Don't guess.
And, it is not a one sized shoe fits all, kind of thing.

Wheat & dairy & _________ only play a role if that particular person is sensitive to it.

Just like some people get migraines from chocolate, but not everyone who gets migraines triggers with chocolate, and chocolate doesn't cause migraines in people who don't get migraines.

Some triggers are common.

Smoke / Perfume / Pollen / Mold / Dust / Cold / Exercise, etc.

But not everyone will trigger with every thing.

My son, for example. Is FINE with smoke & perfume (asthma, RAD, plugging, atelectasis, pleural effusions... His lungs are on strike). He'll be BBQ'ing all day or in the cologn aisle tryong on everything (face palm, that boy STANK) and be breathing problem free. All day, all the next, etx. But he DOES trigger on steam. A foggy morning or steamy bath has him turning blue in minutes.

One thing pulmonologists have you do is track what your kids were doing (where, when, what) 24/7 for months. Looking for patterns & triggers. Elimination diets. Particulates. Weather. The whole shebang.

Be ause if/when you can find out what your kids DO react to, you can drastically reduce pulm problems.

IF she's allergic, sensitive, reactive? Then it will make a huge difference.
If NOT? Then no difference at all.

I have never heard of that link. My son is 100% dairy free due to a severe allergy that was discovered when he was nine months old. At two, he was diagnosed with reactive airway disease; at five, they officially called it asthma. He drinks only soy milk (not any other alternative milks) and sometimes has soy products like yogurt and cheese. Fortunately, his asthma is mild and brought on more by illness (like RAD) than by physical activity.

Unless your daughter has a dairy allergy, I doubt that consuming dairy is causing the RAD.