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Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases

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Re: Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases

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Sweden, norway, denmark. All slightly further away from russia!

Isn't this a bit of fetishization of the white man? Pretty sure all European countries have competent health agencies and AFAIK, the nordic countries do not score particularly well in health care metrics.

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Kids should be allowed to eat dirt. They should be exposed to rich, biodiverse environments, not just asphalt, rubber safety mats or impoverished monocultural lawns (although the latter are better than nothing, at least unless they're chock full of pesticides and herbicides…) Adults should, too, for that matter.

Re: Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases

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Welp. I had a carpet floor in my bedroom as a kid, but that didn't prevent me from developing the badest allergy to dust mites as a teen. It recently got so bad that I started a hyposensitization treatment. Hopefully in 3-5 years it'll get better.

Re: Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases

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usa has a whole agency for it National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). edit: to ppl claiming this must be useless because its in usa is incredible ignorant and insulting to ppl who work there. pls do minimum of research before making such statements. they even have link to their ongoing clinical trials on their website homepage https://www.niaid.nih.gov/clinical-trials/find-a-clinical-tr...

I'm not sure if the US and public healthcare are a positive word combination exactly. Having an agency doesn't mean the outcomes are good.

Assuming the agency survives the next 6 months…

Re: Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases

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Welp. I had a carpet floor in my bedroom as a kid, but that didn't prevent me from developing the badest allergy to dust mites as a teen. It recently got so bad that I started a hyposensitization treatment. Hopefully in 3-5 years it'll get better.

I couldn't breathe through my nose most days until I got that treatment in my late teens/early twenties. It made my life a lot better. I can remember the day I was walking down the street and could smell everything.

I still get some bad episodes, especially in winter, and I keep a distance from dust, but most days I'm fine.

Re: Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases

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Sweden, norway, denmark. All slightly further away from russia!

Isn't this a bit of fetishization of the white man? Pretty sure all European countries have competent health agencies and AFAIK, the nordic countries do not score particularly well in health care metrics.

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Re: Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases

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Australia has some of the best healthcare outcomes in the world, and is significantly further away from Russia. Unfortunately, we trade that for significantly closer proximity to new Zealand...

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