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I recently came across a study providing an interesting new view on the increasing incidence of eczema, asthma and allergies in the developed world. In the paper, researchers explained that those born and raised on farms tended to exhibit reduced immune response to harmless factors.
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9 February 2012
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Researchers supported by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have recently determined that people who produce a large amount of antibodies as a result of allergies tend to develop brain tumors less often than their peers who are otherwise health. The new investigation was conducted in order to confirm and refi... |
19 October 2011
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In a new study, experts found that exposure to cats and dogs during infants' first year of life is positively correlated to a decrease in the little ones' risk of developing allergies to pets later on. Until now, scientists believed that exposing infants to cats or dogs had no significant influence on the w... |
13 June 2011
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In the near future, cat allergies will be all but gone from the general population. Researchers are already reporting positive, encouraging results in preliminary tests, which show that the substance they are working with is harmless when injected to humans. According to a recent paper describing the advancement, the... |
5 April 2011
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Fighting common skin allergies may have just gotten easier. Scientists have developed a new approach to counteracting the reactions that exposure to common chemicals such as nickel produces in many people. The method is very simple, and the solution comes in the form of a cream.Nickel allergy is one of the most commo... |
4 April 2011
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Researchers in the United Kingdom announce that they have produced a new treatment against peanut allergies, that apparently is capable of counteracting the condition's effects. The team is based at the University of Cambridge. According to a new study accompanying the announcement, these results were obtained f... |
18 March 2011
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One of the reasons why adult women suffer from higher rates of certain diseases than men is the fact that society has certain expectations of them, says a philosopher in the United States. He proposes that Western-style societies may be planting the seeds for these diseases ever since the girls are very young.It is d... |
27 January 2011
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A new study carried out by a team of researchers in the Institute for Lung Health at the University of Leicester and Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, discovered that there is a risk that the cause of allergies in asthmatic people could be mold growing in their lungs.It appears that many asthmatic people with allergic r... |
14 December 2010
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Vital stages of growth and development in the womb are critical for fetuses, and it would now appear that they also control the chances a newborn will have of being allergies to various substances called allergens. Over the past few decades, the world has experienced a massive surge in allergy cases, which now affect... |
25 October 2010
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Researchers have just determined that raising a child with a dog around is very likely to help the kid develop only milder allergies to animals, if the allergies develop at all later on in life. Studying such aspects is very important, scientists say, given the rising incidence of allergies in the general population,... |
2 October 2010
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A new study looking at the relationship between pet ownership and eczema concluded that having a dog reduces the risk of developing eczema by age 4, in children with dog allergies.Nowadays, the number of kids that develop eczema is continuously rising, but the exact causes have not yet been established.One of the pro... |
30 September 2010
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A new study carried out by Queen's University researchers, has found that being allergic to cats or dogs can worsen your ragweed allergies.Assistant professor Anne Ellis was the lead researcher of this recent study and her team discovered that people with pet allergies often develop ragweed allergy symptoms muc... |
29 September 2010
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Children growing up in farms usually never have asthma, are never allergic and are not prone to hay fever. Scientists wandered for a long time what helped them be so resistant, without getting an answer. Dr. Marcus Peters from the Department of Experimental Pneumology at the Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum, finally found th... |
19 July 2010
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Over the past couple of decades, the incidence of allergy cases in the United States and around the world has increased considerably. Due to unhealthy diets, excessive hygiene habits, stress and other factors, immune systems become weaker and have nothing to exercise their functions on. As such, they begin attacking ... |
5 June 2010
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Official statistics show that the general population of the United States now features three times more people suffering from allergies to various types of nuts than it did 10 years ago. Peanut allergies are on a steep rise, for example, and they currently affect 300 percent more children than they did in 1997. For t... |
14 May 2010
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As the allergies season is starting, you should expect to see more people than usual sneezing on the street or at work, and much more tears all around. According to official statistics, the number of allergies of all kinds is on the rise, and has been engaged in this trend for many years. Oddly enough, this only seem... |
26 March 2010
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A small study has recently demonstrated that milk allergies can be fought in children using milk drops. Small amounts of milk protein are placed under the infant's tongue, and apparently this works in reducing the response their body produces when exposed to the liquid later on. The work was conducted at the Joh... |
1 March 2010
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that parents should allow for their children to play in the sand, and get dirty. Apparently, this is of tremendous use to the skin's development, as the organ basically learns to take care of itself, something that will come in handy later on in life. While some may... |
23 November 2009
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The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) went public yesterday in changing the existing official warnings on the effects of eating peanuts in the case of pregnant or breastfeeding women. The institution relied its statements on the latest research investigations carried out by the Committee of Toxicity, which found no rele... |
12 December 2008
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If you happen to be among those (many) people who can't enjoy warm weather on account of suffering from hay fever, here is some good news for you: due to extensive new research, the sneezing and runny nose could no longer prevent you from enjoying the summer season. Instead of following grueling treatments that ... |
6 June 2008
08:29 GMT |
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It's summer, there's dust everywhere and sometimes the environment becomes hell for those who suffer from allergies. I guess wearing a mask could be the best solution, but, since you don't want to scare your kids, the only thing you can do would be to invest some of your savings in this "Pro-Aqua" air-... |
9 August 2007
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