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• Babies Get It -- "Dirt Don't Hurt"

  Good news for those of us whose housekeeping skills are, perhaps, a little less than sparkling – accumulating evidence suggests that eating a little dirt is actually good for kids. And that annoying tendency of babies to put every little thing in their mouths may actually be an instinctual attempt to build up their immune systems. As someone who hates housecleaning more than anything else in the world, pretty much, I love the “hygiene hypothesis.” This holds that our hyper-clean, germophobic society may actually explain why autoimmune diseases, allergies and asthma have all been on the rise in recent years. The theory is that kids who live in super-clean environments Read More... Posted Jan 29 2009, 03:29 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: allergies, asthma, immune system, whipworms, germophobia, hygiene hypothesis, immunity, antibacterial, autoimmune disease, hand sanitizers

• Weekly Check-Up: Your Stress Makes Your Kid Sick

  Feeling anxious and depressed? Well, now you have one more thing to angst about, because a new study suggests parental emotional stress can make kids more vulnerable to illness. Like it is enough that stress makes you more likely to get sick, now your children have to be felled by the latest bug as well. I totally knew that stomach flu my kid got was my fault, I just hadn't figured out how I caused it yet. Researchers based the finding on both... Read More... Posted Mar 20 2008, 02:32 PM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: parenting, health, research study, fathers, mothers, depression, stress, illness, weekly check up, immune system, flu, report, sick, cold

• Pregcellent: Maternal Antibodies May Be Linked to Autism

  Researchers are looking at a link between a mother's immune system during pregnancy and the development of autism in children. They found that antibodies in the blood of mothers of kids with autism bind to fetal brain cells, and may be responsible for problems in brain development. This was observed in mothers of children with a particular kind of "late-onset" autism, where development seems fine up to a point, and then switches to a loss in language and social skills. There's hope that this finding will ultimately result in prenatal tests and interventions.   So why does a fetal event result in autism that shows up much later? Read More... Posted Feb 13 2008, 05:27 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, research study, autism, pregcellent, social development, fetal development, immune system, causes, language skills, maternal, antibodies, environmental exposures

• Tattoo You

  The path to a more effective immunization may run through your grandma's Harley Davidson tattoo. Read More... Posted Feb 10 2008, 02:00 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with no comments Filed under: immunization, immune system, tattoo, tramp stamp

• Shots for Mom and Dad, Too

  Infants and toddlers aren't the only ones who need vaccines. But they're the ones most likely to get them, which is making health officials worry. Despite the development of vaccines that guard against terrible illnesses people can develop as adults, only a teeny tiny number of people are actually getting the shots. Here's what a new CDC report found:   Read More... Posted Jan 23 2008, 05:00 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: vaccinations, HPV, immunizations, cervical cancer vaccine, vaccines, whooping cough, immune system, adult health, shingles

• Family Members Eating Peanuts May Trigger Allergies In Kids

  Okay, so one of the theories about peanut allergies is that a lack of exposure to peanuts may be responsible for an increase in the allergy. Folks point to the fact that peanut allergies are evident at a much lower rate in countries where peanuts are a big part of a baby's diet. And it makes sense, since allergies are an immune system overreaction, so less exposure might be bad, right? Um, maybe not. A study funded in part by the British government found that in households where more peanuts were eaten, kids were more likely to develop peanut allergies.  Now, we should be clear that the study wasn't talking about the kids themselves eating peanuts... Read More... Posted Jan 01 2008, 09:33 AM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: research study, diet, allergies, peanut allergy, safety tips, immune system, allergic