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Childhood Asthma Is Growing By Over Health And Pollution
Childhood asthma has increased in the last ten years between 2 and 3 per cent due to extra hygiene and air pollution, and is now about 10 percent of children and up to 50 percent of children of 3 years experience at least one episode of wheezing, “said Dr. Marcel Ibero, president of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology (SEICAP) on the occasion of the celebration today of the Third National Childhood Asthma Day, organized by SEICAP and the Spanish Society of Pediatric Pulmonology (SENP) in collaboration with MSD. The specialist explained that excessive hygiene can “prevent contact of the newborn and infant with antigens that stimulate the immune system” and the diesel particulate air pollution increases, “the ability to produce allergy allergens circulating in the air “. Read the rest of this entry »