German researchers claim that having a dog in your home during your child?s infancy, reduces your child?s risk of developing allergies. Their findings were based upon a 6 year study of 9,000 children and were published in the European Respiratory Journal recently. The findings show that having a dog in the home is associated with [...]
Tags: allergens, Allergies, animals, asthma, dander, dogs, Eczema, germs, pets, pollens
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A new study published in Thorax Online suggests that eating apples while pregnant may help prevent asthmas later for the babies. Researchers in the Netherlands and Scotland tracked nearly 2,000 pregnant women and found that mothers who ate apples produced children who were less likely to develop asthma and childhood wheezing than those who [...]
Tags: apples, asthma, netherlands, scotland, thorax
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Moms who use more cleaning products when pregnancy have a greater change of having a child with asthma. 7-year-old children were up to 41% more likely to have wheezing or asthma if their moms used a lot of products like bleach or air freshener while pregnant.
It’s hard to resist the nesting urge, and the [...]
Tags: asthma, bleach, chemicals, cleaning products, Green, nesting instinct, nesting urge
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Our fifth child is now 11 months old. I’ve been doing this parent thing for over 14 years and I thought I’d seen/done/experienced it all. I was wrong.
I’ve been lucky I guess. I have never had a child with breathing problems. We’ve dealt with autism, blindness, brain damage, handicaps, Obsessive Compulsive [...]
Tags: asthma, bronchiolitis, medicine, nebulizer, pneumonia, RSV, treatments
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It seems that the incidence of asthma in children is on the rise ? especially in low income neighborhoods in urban areas. And it`s not only pollutants and other chemicals that trigger the attacks.
The link between air pollution and asthma is well-established. However, researchers at the American Lung Association thought there may be other factors [...]
Tags: asthma, pollution, social stressors, violence
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