Comments and/or your experience with copd and drinking coffee

Hi jude65855 it was me I googled in well I typed in at thë top of thë page on my laptop how much coffee is recommended for people with copd & tapped on some info about coffee & copd & came across 10 things you meaning us all shouldn't eat & thats where I saw it çan't remember what thë site was called but if you type in ten foods to avoid living with copd it should come up because it mentioned fluid intake! If I remember rightly it is American thë site I clicked on to hope you find it thë effects on medicine & coffee might of been ghe same site or another! I have a repeat prescription for my thyroid medicine aswell as for thë copd & hypertension & thë message on it for my thyroid medicine was to avoid any food & caffeine 30 before taking thë medicine so therefore I'm guessing also that caffeine can have an effect atleast too much anyway sorry I çan't remember thë actual sites as I dont write them down përhaps I should from now on it would be more helpfull sorry about this!

Thanks kayc123 will give it a try.

vening Kayc123

I have also read this some where aswell

Well it might help some people but all I know is I haven't noticed any difference myself but there must be some one some where that finds coffee helps them with their breathing for this ever to have been mentioned for us to find out I'm sure! Do you drink coffee & if you do do you find it helps!?

I think it does help actually when I think about it. Before I had my diagnosis I was often waking about 4 am feeling like I wasn't getting enough air and I would get up , make a coffee and do anxiety pacing and gradually feel better. Whether it was the pacing getting blood flowing or the coffee, or both lol I don't know.I have my inhalers now and this hasn't happened since. Wine does affect my breathing, however it is my sinuses it affects,sneeze as soon as i get the glass near me, swells up the lining in my nose I read on the pollen count site that alcohol contains histamine.....doesn't stop me drinking it though

Hi Kayc123:

Don't know why I said I would give it a try re the coffee drinking.  I do

drink a small mug of coffee in the morning, rarely a second cup.  On this

side of the pond the general concencus is that coffee and copd do not

go well together.  In other words it is not a good thing to do when having breathing problems of any kind.

It's possible you felt better just being upright rather than lying down:  before I was prescribed Symbicort as well as Spiriva I frequently woke up (also around that time of the morning) feeling breathless and would sleep the rest of the night in an armchair, without any coffee.

Hi Jude65855:

Think it's kayc123 talking about waking 4am and making a coffee, etc. -

not me.  Personally coffee would be the last thing I would drink to try and

relieve the breathing issues and/or anxiety!  To each their own, what works

for one person obviously doesn't for for someone else.  Thanks ladies!

I remembered where I read it, don't know if I'm allowed to copy and paste, if not the moderator will inform me I hope  :copied & pasted> 

Caffeine is found in coffee, tea, cola drinks and cocoa. Caffeine is a drug that is very similar to theophylline. Theophylline is a bronchodilator drug that is taken to open up the airways in the lungs and therefore relieve the symptoms of asthma, such as wheezing, coughing and breathlessness.

The effect of caffeine in people with asthma - National ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0010864/

I've copied and pasted where I saw the information, it is waiting to be moderated

Going to share one of the places where it was recommended that caffeine

should be limited for people with copd.  Not going to quote it word for word

as I don't have permission to do that.  My go to site is the Mayo Clinic

for any questions I have health wise.  I googled, is coffee a good choice

for people with copd - Mayo Clinic.  The header of the article is Nutritional Guidelines for people with copd.  The 10th paragraph down

suggests that for people with copd their fluid intake should be approximately 6 - 8oz glasses/day of non-caffeinated beverages.  The

article then goes on to say that caffeine should be limited as it might

interfere with some of your medications.  Again, these are my own words

not a direct quote of the article from the Mayo Clinic.  Think it boils down

to whatever works for you, works for you, not necessarily for the next guy.  Thanks kayc123.

Hi kayc123:

Just read your post and must say I am blown away by, it would seem, how

different we all are!  If I were to pace and have a cup of coffee it would

not turn out well.  The opposite works for me, meditating, breathing techniques and sitting quietly and focusing on an item in front of me.

Interesting isn't it, how one thing works for someone and not for another.

Uh.  Take care.

Hi again kayc123:

Looks like we are in the same time zone!  Wouldn't it be funny if you lived close by?  Don't want or need to know your location kayc123.  Are you

Canadian also?  Take care dear.

Hi Terri, I'm UK, so looks like I'm not very close lol.

Back to the caffeine, I've had hypertension for 25 years& on 4 tablets a day for it. Back in the old days, when I was worried about it I read that caffeine should be avoided, and back then I used to drink a lot of coffee as I smoked, the two seemed to go together, so I drastically cut back on the coffee & it made no difference whatsoever to my blood pressure...in retrospect I wish I'd cut back on the ciggies! However we can't turn back the clock. Totally agree with you on what is good for one isn't always good for another.We just have to absorb all the information we can & try what works for us as an individual, that's why forums like this are good...information can be thrown into the "coffee pot" (pun intended ),

Take Care & Breathe Easy

Sometimes this site puts replies in the wrong place, I noticed it at the time but there's no way to correct it

Thanks for the info, but personally I hate sites which say things like that:  caffeine "might" interfere with "some" of the medications:  which ones?  I'll have a look at the site but if they don't give research references I'm taking no notice of that whatsoever.

I thought the myth about needing to drink that much fluid had been exposed a couple of years ago and that it originally came from the bottled water people?  Not saying we don't need to drink lots of water but I thought the latest research indicated that if our urine is colourless we're drinking enough liquid?

I found it on the Mayo Clinic site but it's very vague:  nothing except caffeine "might" affect "some medications" - meaningless in my opinion.  I haven't been able to find any warnings on the manufacturers' sites for the inhalers I use, still looking.

The really strange thing was that an advertisement for coffee came up on the Mayo site while I was looking, plus instant packet processed soup, which doesn't incline me to take the site seriously

Hi Jude65855:

I am absolutely sure that you know exactly what you are doing with

respect to your own health, ie. what works and what doesn't.  The Mayo

Clinic is a reputable site recommended by a Dr. that I know personally

in the good old US of A.  Thanks for your comments Jude.

Don`t sweat the small stuff.  Save your energy Jude65855 for, let`s see

what, breathing maybe. 

That is unfortunate.  Personally I make my own soup, would never eat

soup out of a can and as for the coffee ad, really?  Never happened to me

when I was on their site.  Oh well.  Take a breath and carry on.

Looks like you are also in the same time zone as me.  A Canadian?

 

I'm not "sweating" anything, just checking out info to see if it's worth following up and in this case decided I'll ignore it:  others are free to do otherwise

You are absolutely right judge65855, only you know what works for you -

period.  Smart person. 

My reply above has been moderated and allowed

Personally, perhaps because I don't have asthma, coffee does not help

me.  Looked at the source of your information and not really sure what to

say here, other than part or all of the subject matter came from one single

study?!  Also the 6th paragraph down concerns me a little.  Anyway, to

repeat myself - to each their own whatever works for you may not work

for me.  Take care kayc123.  (fyi I'm done with this subject!)

Yeah, me too Terri,

Having gone over from 8 cups of regular coffee per day to 2 cups of decaff,I can't find any difference whatsoever!,after several weeks on decaff,it really isnt too bad!

We are all individual, obviously, in our reaction to coffee, meds, inhalers,

etc...etc...  8 cups ?!!! bit excessive perhaps? or not.  Whatever works for u.