Allergy Category
Top NEWS Post 12-18-2008
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- Preventing Food Allergies in Children – A Change of Strategy?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States in 2007 around 3 million children under 18 had food allergies - a rise of 18% since 1997. The CDC says in 2006 about 6.8 million children suffered from some sort of allergy and for some reason which remains unclear there are a growing number of children with allergies to foods such as peanuts, eggs and fish and these affected children are two to four times as likely to have related conditions such as asthma or other allergies.
Top NEWS Post 12-18-2008
Dust and Infection Control
Asthma, pneumonia,upper respiratory infections. Where do they come from? What triggers an infection? Recent research seems to indicate that common house dust may be a trigger for many environmentally related illnesses. A story in the BMC Microbiology journal indicated that scientists had located approximately 500 species of bacteria including staphylococcus and streptococcus species in common house dust.
