Article: SA: Researchers hope antihistamines will prevent asthma

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SA: Researchers hope antihistamines will prevent asthma

By Lauren Ahwan

ADELAIDE, June 18 AAP - Asthma could be prevented in up to 50 per cent of children through early intervention with antihistamines, researchers believe.

A worldwide study of 500 children is hoping to prove that prescribing antihistamines to infants with eczema and a susceptibility to dust and pollen allergies can prevent later development of asthma.

Asthma currently affects about one in four children.

"We're potentially talking about intervention that will prevent 50 per cent of those (asthma) cases so public health-wise this is huge," Adelaide's Women' s and Children's ...

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