Basically put a dog into your home and you are covered.
Didn't help me.
Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases
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Re: Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases
#102The hygiene hypothesis is compelling, as many in this thread demonstrate. But there is sort of an opposite less tidy explanation which needs to be studied further: our immune systems are confused by a barrage of foreign antagonists in the modern industrial world and causing it to go haywire.
Did you read the article? I think we can stop calling it a hypothesis, asthma emergency visits went down by as much as 60% within 10 years after the programme started.
The hygiene hypothesis seems likely to be a good explanation for part of the problem, but there is good evidence that it is only a part explanation.
Re: Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases
#103For me this link results in a 503 I've read the gist of this article in my local news org feed. What it basically comes down to is that Finnish scientists noticed that Russian children who grew up in rural areas usually had way less asthma cases than Finnish city children, and thus began to research why this was the case. They hypothesized that early (first 10000 days) exposure to micro-organisms might play a key rol…
> first 10000 days A 10000 day old “child” is in their late twenties.
Reminds me of the comment in Gattaca that his heart is 10000 beats overdue. Which is about 3 hours.