COVID-19 prevention measures are at odds with guidelines for healthy development of children’s immune systems. The result may be a cluster of youth with more allergies, asthma and autoimmune disease.
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We’re cleaning and washing our hands perhaps more than we ever have before. But suggestions that all this this extra hygiene could weaken our immune systems are unfounded.
For most of the twentieth century, we were at war with microbes, leading to substantial changes in our body’s ecosystem. This has changed our diets, disease profile, moods and even personalities.
Food poisoning or allergies – which to go for.
Understanding the bugs in our lungs could help treat certain diseases, including asthma.
Being too clean isn’t what’s making us sick. It’s the loss of biodiversity in the bacteria and organisms that live in our bodies and work with the immune system.
Allergies are reactions caused by the immune system as it responds to environmental substances that are usually harmless. But we don’t yet have a cure or the ability to prevent them from developing.
Most people who report allergies don’t actually have them – and there are other things you may find surprising.
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Principales colaboradores
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Professor of Immunology, University of Sydney
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Laboratory Head, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Group Leader, Childhood Allergy & Epidemiology, The University of Queensland
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Professional Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Post Doctoral researcher - Experimental and Translational Respiratory Medicine Research Group, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Immunology, Vice-Chancellors Distinguished Professorial Fellow, Head of Immunology and Translational Research, Victoria University
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Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
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Professor&Chair of Paediatrics | HMRI, University of Newcastle, Australia | Senior Staff Specialist Paediatric Respiratory&Sleep Medicine | John Hunter Children's Hospital, Australia, University of Newcastle
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Senior Staff Specialist in Paediatric Allergy and Immunology at John Hunter Children's Hospital Newcastle NSW Conjoint Lecturer in Paediatrics, University of Newcastle
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Staff Specialist General Paediatrician at John Hunter Children's Hospital, Newcastle, Australia. Conjoint Lecturer & PhD student, University of Newcastle
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Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Associate Professor of Surgery, Duke University
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Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
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PhD candidate, The University of Western Australia
