Child Asthma

The rate of child asthma has gone up in the last few years in the industrialized countries. Due to this fact researchers are trying to understand why. As for a team of researchers led by Juha Pekkanen the underlying cause is living conditions in the home. After doing an extensive analysis with many children, ones in homes with mold and ones without the ones with mold were much more likely to develop child asthma. According to their research there is a chemical in the cell walls in certain funghi that can induce a immnune response. However the mecahnism is unknown at the time. This might be a problem that can be fixed and child asthma rates may be able to be brought under control.

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