..............Well ... the scientists appear to be religiously committed
to IGNORE the
possible consequences of the EMF (Blue World) -- which
has tracked an increase
over the past 25 years that could match the increase in asthma cases
cited below......!!!
It certainly warrants some serious study......
How could the Blue World contribute to asthma (causation
or promotion)???
Why, via its well documented capacity to intereact with the
neuroendicrine system.....
The hormone system......!!!! The immune system.......!!!!
Cheerio........ TGIF everybody.......
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
WEBSITE: http://emfguru.com
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness....
People are more important than profit$$
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Friday October 20 8:46 AM ET
By Patricia Reaney
LONDON (Reuters) - Early exposure to indoor mite = and cat allergens does not cause asthma in children but they can trigger an asthma attack in people with the disease.
New research by Ge= rman scientists reported in The Lancet medical journal found no evidence of a link between the allergens and the development of the disease.
The incidence of asthma h= as increased by more than 50 percent in some developed countries in the last 25 years.
``Exposure to= environmental allergens alone probably influences the specific sensitization but not the development of asthma,'' Dr Susanne Lau, of University Children's Hospital in Berlin, said in a telephone interview.
The researchers followed more= than 1,314 newborns born in German cities in 1990 to determine whether exposure to indoor allergens caused the disease.
They measured allergic reactions to food = and inhaled allergens at regular intervals in the children's lives and the prevalence of wheezing, a common asthma symptom.
Carpet dust was also c= ollected and analyzed and family histories of allergies were also taken. By the end of the study, doctors had diagnosed 6.1 percent of the children with asthma.
Lau said that exposure to the allergens may have been an influence but it was not the major cause of the disease.
``The developm= ent of asthma was not related to cat and mite allergen exposure in the first year of life or to cat ownership,'' Lau explained.
In a commentary on the research in The Lanc= et, Dr Roni Grad of the University of Alabama in Birmingham in the United States, said the German research seemed to put to rest the idea that the onset of asthma is due to exposure to one or two allergens early in life.
``The search must go on for answers to the imp= ortant questions of what causes asthma and why the prevalence of the disease has increased so substantially,'' he said.
Asthma is a chronic = disease that causes wheezing and difficulty breathing. It affects the small tubes that carry air in and out of the lungs, which become inflamed by triggers such as colds, exercise, animals, pollen and dust mites.
About 150 million p= eople worldwide and between five and 10 percent of the population in Britain and the United States suffer from asthma. It is prevalent in industrialized countries and relatively rare in parts of China, Africa, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
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