Asthma and Coffee

[DeanSamson]

hi All,

Does anyone have issues when drinking coffee?

Instant coffee isn’t as bad but I have a bean to cup machine at home since Xmas and everytime I have a coffee within a few minutes asthma symptoms flare up.

now I’m wonder is it coffee allergy or more of a reflux situation?

Anyone else had similar?

Thanks

[eleanordigby]

Coffee is a mild bronchodilator so it seems unlikely to bring on your asthma (unless it’s the reflux, as you say.) If you had an allergy you’d think any coffee would affect you 🤔 I drink 2-3 cups of strong black coffee from a local roastery each day and it’s never affected my chest - though that’s not relevant to your experience. Don’t know about you but I’d rather give up anything than coffee 😕

[Homely2 Administrator]

Coffee I have always for gently helps my asthma. I often have a coffee when my asthma is proving troublesome.

[Itswonderful]

I drink a cup of instant decaf once a day. Can’t drink bean coffee. It just makes me feel yuk all over. Gives me a headache and tenses up my muscles including airways which slightly affects my breathing, even if I only have a small amount so you may be experiencing similar. I haven’t tried decaf bean coffee but if I have caffeinated instant it doesn’t affect me as much.

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It has the opposite effect on me. My breakfast coffee, which I have before my inhalers, clears my chest . Coffee is a bronchodilator.

[Maltesemama]

Hi Dean, coffee helps my asthma. Many sites actually recommend coffee as a positive drink. But we are all different, so if it bothers you try decaf? Check with you Doc. Good luck!