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Eating Apples And Fish During Pregnancy May Protect Against Childhood Asthma And Allergies
May 20, 2007 Women who eat apples and fish during pregnancy may reduce the risk of their children developing asthma or allergic disease, suggests new research. The study found that the children of mothers who ate ... > full story -
Peanut Allergies Overstated, Study Finds
May 16, 2007 Despite hundreds of families being told their children have peanut allergies every year, many of the children may be able to eat peanuts safely, a study by researchers at the University of New South ... > full story -
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Full-Term, Low-Birth-Weight Babies At Significantly Greater Risk For Early Respiratory Symptoms
May 15, 2007 Through age 5, children born at full term with low birth weight show significantly greater risk for developing respiratory symptoms, including wheezing, coughing and pulmonary infections, according ... > full story -
Drinking Farm Milk Reduces Childhood Asthma And Allergies, But Raw Consumption Remains Unsafe, Study Finds
May 10, 2007 Kids who drink farm milk are less likely to have asthma or allergies, regardless of whether they live in urban or rural areas. But the health risks of giving unboiled farm milk to children remain a ... > full story -
Skin Patch Tests May Miss Patients Allergic To Common Fragrance
May 10, 2007 Skin patch screening test for allergy to fragrances -- second only to nickel as the most common cause of contact dermatitis in the Western world -- may not detect some cases of allergy to a widely ... > full story -
Cat Hair At Home Poses An Allergy Risk, Particularly For Young Children
May 2, 2007 Cats and cat allergens in the home clearly raise the risk of the allergic sensitization of children up to the age of two. For older children, however, the influence of the environment at home on the ... > full story -
Indoor Fungus Molecules May Protect Infants Against Future Allergies
April 30, 2007 Maybe being a fussy housekeeper isn’t such a good thing after all. Environmental health scientists now say they have confirmed what other scientists have only suspected: early-life exposure to ... > full story -
Hay Fever Can Send Work Productivity Down The Drain
April 26, 2007 Employers can blame hay fever for the loss of millions of hours of work productivity this spring. A new study of nearly 600 people with hay fever symptoms, including sneezing, watery eyes and runny ... > full story -
New Study Links Stomach Microbe To Asthma Prevention
April 23, 2007 The stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which causes stomach cancer and peptic ulcers, may not be all bad. According to a new study, it may help protect kids from ... > full story -
Crab Shell, Insect Exoskeleton And Other Forms Of Chitin Cause Allergic Inflammation
April 22, 2007 The beetle's back and the crab's shell owe their toughness to a common compound called chitin that now appears to trigger airway inflammation and possibly asthma, scientists have ... > full story
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