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Article: Allergic Diseases May Be Preventable in Unborn Children.
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- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- February 6, 2000
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2000 FEB 6 - (NewsRx.com) --
It may be possible to prevent the development of allergies in a child before he or she is born, according to new research.
J.A. Werner and colleagues at Southampton General Hospital in England sought to determine whether manipulation of an unborn baby's environment, including nutrition and immunologic factors, might alter its propensity to develop an allergic disease.
The researchers drew data through 1997 from the Medline database, studying information that had been collected during pregnancy and early life. The results were published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology ("Primary sensitization in infants," ...