Can You Really Protect Your Child From Allergies

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Are you missing out if like most people there isn’t a pig in your home as a pet. Pigs are intelligent animals and can even be house trained. They also have a redeeming feature – Children are unlikely to have allergies if they grow up with a pig. Of course you have to put up with a lot of oinking and grunting but less of sneezing and wheezing.

Pauline Williams, a 24 year old daycare provider and a mother of a one year old daughter, does not have a pig. But Pauline is battling allergies in her own way. Williams who lives in Austin, Texas has many allergies herself. Enough of them to make her hyper-vigilant. She says that she is allergic to smoke, molds and dust. She also says that she is allergic to wheat that makes her break out in rashes and also that eating corn sets of an attack of asthma and that it is purely her fault as she ate a lot of corn as a kid.

Williams thinks that she can save her daughter Heather from the same fate. Williams says that the if Heather is less exposed to allergens it is unlikely that she will become sensitive. Williams is very careful as to what Heather eats, drinks and breathes. She is a maniac in dusting while keeping her purifier running throughout the day, for herself and for her daughter’s sake. She boasts that she has the cleanest home in the neighborhood.

If Williams has actually found a method to protect Heather from allergies, she will be riding against the tide. For several decades, incidence of allergic diseases have been rising in the United States and in other industrialized countries. The center for disease Prevention and Control reports that every year more than seven million children are identified with hay fever. An itchy allergic rash known as Atopic Dermatitis affects nearly 30% of toddlers and young children has become common. And asthma, often sparked off by allergies has reached epidemic proportions. It is estimated by the American Lung Association that six million children are affected by the disease. It is a common chronic disease and constitutes a third of all hospitalization cases.

In these times when so many children are suffering, researchers and parents are both looking for answers. What causes allergies and asthma? Is there actually any way to prevent them from happening? And is it possible that parents are raising the risk for allergies unknowingly?

A Chance To Miss Out On A Lifetime Of Sneezing

Allergy research is shrouded with controversies and mysteries. But there is one thing that is clear – A crucial turning point is childhood. The immune system takes shape at this time and it can take rather of two paths: One to tolerance and the other to allergies. The best thing is that children who inherit a great dangerfor allergies are not destined to take go that path themselves. ........ Article Details Here

Could Dirty Homes Be Healthier?

It is the belief of many researchers that perhaps we are getting too clean for our own good. According to what is known as “hygienic hypothesis” bacteria, dust and other allergens found in unclean homes might assist the immune system in shaping up in such a way that it protects against allergies. ........ Article Details Here

Prenatal Allergy Prevention

There is an ongoing argument among experts as to how to protect a baby from allergies during a pregnancy. One piece of advice is of paramount importance: Expectant women should avoid smoking and also secondhand smoke. In case you expose your baby to the toxins of tobacco, his lungs will be weak at birth and he is more likely to develop asthma later on........ Article Details Here

Infancy: When Sensitivities Are Developing

A decisive time for allergies to develop is infancy, more so if there is a family history of allergies. In case your child is born with a predisposition towards allergies, contact with an allergen – whether it is something in the air or the food – could set him up for a lifelong time of wheezing, sneezing and itching. But if it is possible for you to assist in avoiding these allergens while there is a chance for immune system to mature, it might just help him avoid them altogether........ Article Details Here

On The Road To Allergy?

Till such time that your toddler reaches the age when he or she can eat foods that are potentially risky, it is best not to expose them to such foods. For instance, avoid cow’s milk till your toddler turns one and eggs till she turns two. It is also better that you keep your child away from fish, tree nuts (such as almonds and pecan) and peanuts till she turns three........ Article Details Here