Environmental determinants of allergy and asthma in early life
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...These indoor allergens play an important role in eliciting asthma exacerbations, by increasing airway inflammation and bronchial hyper-responsiveness (24)....
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...Allergic disease prevalence has increased significantly in recent decades.(1) The majority of school-age children and adults with asthma have concomitant allergic sensitization, which has been associated with asthma inception and severity....
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...Vaginally delivered infants tended to be colonized with vaginal (Lactobacillus species) and fecal (Prevotella species) flora, whereas infants born by means of caesarean section tended to be colonized by skin flora (Staphylococcus and Corynebacterium species),(17) with increased abundance of Clostridium difficile and reduced Bifidobacterium and Bacteroides species.(16) Meta-analyses of studies examining the association between delivery mode and allergic disease in Western countries found an increased risk of childhood asthma,(18,19) allergic rhinitis,(18) and food allergy(18) in children born by means of caesarean section compared with vaginal births....
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...The Allergy and Endotoxin cross-sectional survey found that higher levels of endotoxin in child mattresses were associated with reduced risk of allergic sensitization, hay fever symptoms, and atopic asthma.(27) The precise mechanism for this effect is not known....
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...One theory suggests that increased exposure to environmental endotoxin leads to downregulation of inflammatory responses.(27) Others have suggested the protective effect is the result of polymorphisms within the CD14 gene, which encodes a coreceptor for Toll-like receptor 4 with high specificity for LPS, and in fact, a recent systematic review found a significant gene-environment interaction between CD14 polymorphisms and microbial exposure....
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