As a country becomes more developed, allergy rises and rises. And the notion there is that in the more-developed countries, you may be getting less exposure to infections and germs and other things that may stimulate your immune system in a direction other than allergy, ... The more your immune system is kept busy by exposure to germs and infections early in life, the less time it can devote to things like allergy.
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It's not unusual to find Thai regulators with an allergy to responsibility, and the prospect of new legislation relating to alcohol is an available excuse to delay.
Dogs, by nature, scratch themselves a lot. So people may not know their pet has an allergy, and may just think their dog is scratching. Dogs can do an enormous amount of damage in a short time.
It'll change from season to season, year to year. As you grow older, some young children have allergy problems that they can grow out of as they get older.
She was suffering from allergy and knee pain due to which she could not train before competition.
The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.
Parents need to be informed and take any food allergy seriously. If my son's death can save one life, then I feel we have done some good.
All I knew is my son was supposed to stay away from tree nuts. But we were not in the habit of reading food labels. We also didn't think of the food allergy in terms of life and death.
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.
This is prime allergy season for dogs. Seasonal allergies are starting, but it's also flea allergy time. This is perfect flea season because we had a mild winter and the fleas didn't die off.
The exact mechanism by which peanut allergy may recur is not known, but we know that the children in our study who ate concentrated forms of peanut frequently had a considerably lower chance of having a recurrence of their allergy.
Don't just assume you have a food allergy. If you suspect one, get it confirmed. You have to make sure you really are allergic. I have seen people with nutritional problems due to avoiding foods not really allergic to.
The ability to detect and prevent infectious diseases is a key component of our federal efforts to combat terrorism. As we sadly learned during the anthrax crisis in 2001, bioterrorism is a real threat. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases made the right call in tapping into the brainpower of George Mason University to conduct this vital research.
The data are not clear enough to say what the true rate of increase has been, but we would be very comfortable saying the rate of food allergy has truly increased.
I have a list of teachers that have had cancer, thyroid problems, allergy problems.