The Canadian Childhood Asthma Primary Prevention Study

Avoidance of any one of the individual risk factors associated with childhood asthma has not been successful in preventing its development. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention programme for the primary prevention of asthma in high-risk infants at 7 years of age. Five hundred and forty-five high-risk infants with an immediate family history of asthma and allergies were prospectively randomized into intervention and control groups pre-natally. (more…)

Atopic Dermatitis in Children: Triggers and Treatment

atopic dermatitis
Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory condition of the skin which usually starts in infancy. It is sometimes called ‘atopic eczema’ or even simply ‘eczema’. Recently, the term ‘atopic eczema dermatitis syndrome’ or eczema symptoms or infantile eczema has also been proposed to indicate the varied nature of this disease. The diagnosis is based on clinical features of a chronic itchy dermatitis with typical morphology and distribution and a relapsing and remitting course. (more…)

The Epidemiology of Allergic Disease – Asthma, Hay Fever, Eczema

Atopy can be determined as such the production of specific IgE response to common exposure to environmental allergens like dust mites, grass and cat or pets. Living with atopic allergic diseases such as asthma, allergic rhinitis linked, and eczema, but not everyone with atopy develops clinical manifestations of allergy and not everyone can be detected in clinical allergy syndrome, atopic diseases, it has been tested for specific IgE for a wide range of environmental allergens. This is especially true for asthma. (more…)