Asthma Triggers

[LEME18]

Hi all, does anyone else have an issue with consuming raw onions or raw garlic? They flair my asthma significantly but every dr I've discussed it with just looks at me weird...

[Putnam Asthma Captain]

They actually help control my asthma.

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I'm not sure about raw onion or garlic. But, whenever Mr. Yarnybeader makes garlic toast in the oven or cooks with a lot of garlic, the hot garlic fumes DO set off my asthma big time.

[rachelmi]

Yes most definitely. this started to happen to me when I was around 20, I’m now 57!After a very oniony and garlicky meal I couldn’t breathe and felt I had a paving slab on my chest. Around that time I was diagnosed as ‘ asthmatic’ but I’ve always had been a ‘chesty baby’ 😊.

Now I avoid all onions and the onion family such as chives, leeks, shallots etc and have a brown inhaler each day and I’m mostly great 👍 except if I get a horrible virus 🦠 and have to up my meds. I’ve was doing competitive sport until last year, so I’ve managed to have a normal very active life ( minus the onions 😂)