Ideal cleanliness in the home has a negative impact on children
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Scientists suspect that the ideal purity in the house can negatively affect the immune system of children.
Over the past 20 years in the UK, the number of children whose nuts cause allergies has doubled. Scientists decided to understand the reasons for this trend and found that the harshest number of allergy sufferers increased among the middle class. The researchers suggest that this fact can be one of the evidence of the theory's validity, according to which children from well-to-do families are weakened by the immune system because of the cleanliness of the house. Thus, the scientists came to the conclusion that the parents who are obsessed with cleanliness can harm the health of their children.
The study covered 8,306 patients, 776 of whom had certain forms of allergy to nuts. The results of the survey were presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
The lead author of the study, allergist Dr. Sandy Yip, said: "The overall level of family income is related to the sensitization to peanut allergen only in children from one to nine years, which may indicate that the development of sensitization to peanuts at an early age is related to the level of family wealth, and here is an increase in sensitivity at another age with a wealth is not connected. "
"At the same time, although many children, as they grow up, can develop immunity to various allergens, the source of which is food, allergy to peanuts" only 20 percent of children "grow out."
The latest study also found that in the UK, allergy to nuts is more common in males and among national minorities.
Last year, a survey conducted by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Maastricht found that over the period from 2001 to 2005 in the UK, an allergy to nuts was diagnosed in 25,000 people. In addition, it was found that among children from affluent families allergy sufferers are twice as likely to be found as among their peers from less well-off families.
Peanut allergens can cause respiratory depression in people with allergies. Cases of lethal outcomes as a result of anaphylactic shock due to allergy to nuts are documented.
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