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Cleaning with bleach reduces your childs allergy and asthma, unless you smoke |
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Written by Boyce Hornberger
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Cleaning reduces allergy and asthma. Chlorine bleach can inactivate many common indoor allergens. A study reported in the Journal of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology by Nickmilder M, et al was done looking at what extent regular house cleaning with bleach can influence the risks of respiratory and allergic diseases in children. In this study they looked at a group of 234 schoolchildren aged 10–13 yr, 78 of whom were living in a house cleaned with bleach at least once per week. The children were examined using a questionnaire, an exercise-induced asthma test, measurement of exhaled nitric oxide (NO), which is elevated in asthma, and they measured allergy antibody (IgE) levels. |
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Chronic urticaria and association with celiac disease |
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Written by Boyce Hornberger
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Caminiti L, et al published a case-control study looking at the possible association of Celiac Disease (CD) and Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria (CIU). They compared a group of children with CIU to an equally matched group of children without CIU and looked for evidence of CD. They did this by measuring the presence of two antibodies that are present in CD and if these were present the children had intestinal biopsies to confirm the presence of celiac disease. They found that 4/79 (5%) of the children with CIU had CD and 17/2545 (.67%) children without CIU had CD. When the children who had both CIU and CD were put on a gluten free diet the CIU disappeared. This is pretty strong evidence that there might be an association between CIU and CD. It is enough that it is probably reasonable to look for the presence of CD in pediatric patients with CIU |
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Written by Boyce Hornberger
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My advice about which sites to go to for allergy information, after looking around the internet on a variety of topics in allergy, is to look and see if they sell anything. If they do MOVE ON! Many, if not most, are misleading and designed to bring you to a sale. This is not all sites, but enough of them that you cannot rely on their advise. Think about it, would someone really just out to help and inform you want to sell you something? I have mixed feelings about those that advertise, at the least it is distracting. The most common type of misleading sites are many of those on "Candida". If you mix what is 90% truth with 10% falsehood to reach a conclusion, than what you get is 100% false |
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