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Article: PET-ALLERGY THEORY HAS MATERNAL TWIST
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- United Press International
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- September 5, 2002
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Pet-allergy theory has maternal twist
BOSTON, Sep 05, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Researchers
at the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital said Thursday
that asthma may be an exception to the new idea among some allergists
that many children will show reduced allergic responses as adults
if exposed to cats or dogs as infants.
Children who have a mother with a history of asthma will not get the
same protective effect against allergies by having a cat in the house
as a child whose mother does not have asthma, the researchers claimed.
A history of asthma in a child's father, however, does not increase
risk for children who had cats, ...