#asthma — Public Fediverse posts

I've been having symptoms consistent with eosinophilic esophagitis FIRE syndrome for some time. There are foods that seem to trigger a reaction only sometimes; the threshold for reactivity seems to move up and down. Exposure to lung irritants seems to be a key factor in moving the threshold downwards.

I worked outside in a public garden today for a couple of hours without a mask, not realizing the air quality was poor. I recently had success eating foods that I sometimes react to with sauerkraut (I have no idea what's going on there), including rice - a food I had 'lost' and then regained, then lost again. I tried the rice with sauerkraut thing and was disappointed to find that today I had to eat *a lot* of sauerkraut to swallow it without too much pain.

I decided to sit outside on the patio after, but only for a few minutes as I looked over at our air monitor and found it was yellow-orange - then I realized I had been breathing bad air for a while today. It only just now started to smell like smoke.

"About 10 years ago, Virchow defined EoE as “asthma of the esophagus” "
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/15/9/2359

Th sauerkraut thing is weird since it is acidic and the thing that helps me quell an acute reaction is baking soda water. I thought it had to do with the alkalinity calming mast cells. 🤷‍♂️

#MCAS #EosinophilicEsophagitis #AirPollution #Asthma #sauerkraut