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Article: A Sensitive Child.
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
- Author:
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Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.
Chinese proverb
From cradle cap to diaper rash, very young children are prone to several types of dermatitis. Until recently, though, allergic contact dermatitis was considered uncommon among this age group. Conventional wisdom held that young children's immune systems were too immature to be sensitized to allergens encountered through skin exposure. But new research casts doubt on conventional wisdom. In a study published in the January 2000 online version of Pediatrics at http://www.pediatrics.org/, researchers from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in ...