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Article: Dust most common allergy in India
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- July 21, 2008
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Hindustan Times
NEW DELHI, India, July 21 -- Dust allergy is the most common allergy in India, triggering reaction in four of five of 5,400 people tested for allergies from across the country. Data of allergy tests at Dr Lal PathLabs shows that 80.3 % people tested were allergic to dust mites.
Allergy triggers in India are quite different from the West. "While dust mites cause 80 % of all allergies in India, dust is the second common allergen in the US and Europe, where pollen allergy accounts for 20 % of allergies," says Dr Arvind Lal, CMD, Dr Lal PathLabs, which collected samples from its 650 collection centres across India.
Many people were sensitive to more than one allergen, showed ...
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