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Sucking Your Baby ’ s Pacifier Might Protect Them From Allergies, Study Says
(CNN) — Your baby’s pacifier falls on the floor. Before giving it back to your child, do you wash it in a sink or, perhaps reluctantly, clean it with your own saliva? Don’t feel too guilty if you chose the latter, because a new study suggests that a mother’s spit — and the bacteria in it — may help prevent allergies in young children. The research found lower levels of a troublesome, allergy-causing protein in babies whose mothers reported sucking on their infants’ pacifiers, adding to a growing body of evidence that early exposure to microbes may prevent allergies in children. ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 16, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News Allergies Local TV Parenting Source Type: news

Pregnancy and perinatal conditions and atopic disease prevalence in childhood and adulthood
ConclusionsOur results indicate that children, who are born by Cesarean section and especially by assisted birth, might be at greater risk for developing asthma, flexural eczema and sensitization and should hence be monitored. Prenatal maternal stress might partly explain these associations, which should be further investigated.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Source: Allergy - November 29, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Jessica Gerlich, Nora Benecke, Astrid S. Peters ‐Weist, Sabine Heinrich, Diana Roller, Jon Genuneit, Gudrun Weinmayr, Doris Windstetter, Holger Dressel, U Range, Dennis Nowak, Erika von Mutius, Katja Radon, Christian Vogelberg Tags: Original Article: Epidemiology and Genetics Source Type: research

FUT2-dependent breast milk oligosaccharides and allergy at 2 and 5  years of age in infants with high hereditary allergy risk
Conclusion The data indicate that infants born by C-section and having a high hereditary risk for allergies might have a lower risk to manifest IgE-associated eczema at 2  years, but not 5 years of age, when fed breast milk with FUT2-dependent milk oligosaccharides. Further studies with larger cohorts and especially randomized controlled intervention trials are required to build on these preliminary observations.
Source: European Journal of Nutrition - March 11, 2017 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research

XXIV World Allergy Congress 2015
Table of Contents A1 Pirfenidone inhibits TGF-b1-induced extracellular matrix production in nasal polyp-derived fibroblasts Jae-Min Shin, Heung-Man Lee, Il-Ho Park A2 The efficacy of a 2-week course of oral steroid in the treatment of chronic spontaneous urticaria refractory to antihistamines Hyun-Sun Yoon, Gyeong Yul Park A3 The altered distribution of follicular t helper cells may predict a more pronounced clinical course of primary sjögren’s syndrome Margit Zeher A4 Betamethasone suppresses Th2 cell development induced by langerhans cell like dendr...
Source: World Allergy Organization Journal - April 18, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: A randomized controlled trial of early probiotic supplementation to prevent early markers of asthma for high-risk infants
CONCLUSIONS: For high-risk infants, early LGG supplementation for the first 6 months of life does not appear to prevent the development of asthma, eczema or recurrent wheezing at 2 yrs.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - October 30, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Cabana, M., McKean, M., Caughey, A., Leong, R., Wong, A., Hilton, J., Boushey, H. Tags: 7.2 Paediatric Asthma and Allergy Source Type: research