Early encounter to bacteria prevents kids from allergy risk in later life

Infants who encounter a wide range of bacteria are at less risk of increasing allergic disease later in life, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen the figure over sensitivity diseases, or allergies, has been on the raise in recent decades.

Now researchers at the Dansk BorneAstma Center University of Copenhagen, are at last able to partly explain the reasons,“In our study of over 400 children we experiential a direct link between the number of different bacteria in their rectums and the risk of increase of allergic disease later in life,” said Professor Hans Bisgaard, advisor at Gentofte Hospital, head of the Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood.

“Reduced diversity of the intestinal microbiota through infancy was associated with increased risk of allergic disease at school age, he continues but if there was significant diversity, the risk was reduced, and the better the variation, the lower the risk.

Surge in allergic diseases in India: WAO

Growing industrialisation and fast changing biodiversity coupled with sedentary lifestyles are cause a surge in allergic diseases, especially between children in the country, the World Allergy Organisation (WAO) has warned.

Currently, about 20 to 30 per cent of people in India are having one or additional allergic diseases and their prevalence is rising dramatically, the WAO said, the diseases integrated asthma, rhinitis, anaphylaxis, food and drug allergy, insect allergy, eczema and urticaria (hives) and angioedema, it said.

The prevalence of asthma and rhinitis two major form of allergies was one and 10 percent likewise in 1964 in the country but new data shows that about 14 per cent people now have asthma, while over 20 per cent are pain from allergic rhinitis (AR) which results from an IgE-mediated inflammation of the nasal mucosa.