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In Europe, the number of children with asthma rises 2 to 3% for every new indoor swimming pool that is installed, meaning that asthma, in Western Europe at least, could at least partly be due to the exposure of children to the by-products of chlorine in the air and water of indoor swimming pools. And in the last decade, the number of people visiting to hospital emergency rooms because of severe allergic reactions has increased to three times what it was in the past.
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A 15-year-old Canadian girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend, who had just eaten peanut butter. Peanut allergies may be on the increase because some baby products contain peanut oil.

Christina Desforges was almost immediately given a shot of adrenaline, which is the standard treatment for anaphylactic shock, but she died anyway. Peanut allergies have been rising recently. Scientists suspect this may be because baby creams and lotions made with peanut oil may sensitive children to peanuts, causing allergies later in life. There may also be peanut oil in baby food, so read labels carefully.
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Hate to make your bed in the morning? Don’t do it?you’llstay healthier. It’s not just your mother who wants you tomake your bed, dust mites do too. While an unmade bed looksmessy, it does keep those mites away. These tiny bugs eatsloughed off skin cells and breathing air that contains themites is a common cause of asthma.

BBC news.com reports on a recent study showing the mitesdon’t survive in the warm, dry conditions of an unmade bed.You may not realize it, but you’re sleeping alongsideliterally millions of these little bugs every night, sincethe average bed is home to around 1.5 million dust mites.
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Two of the eight euro coins that will come into circulation in January contain so much nickel that people allergic to the metal could develop eczema. Just five minutes of contact with one-euro (88 cents) and two-euro coins containing Cupro-nickel, an alloy containing copper and nickel, could trigger symptoms that including skin inflammation and itching, according to a study by Swedish dermatologist Carola Liden of the Karolinska Institute and Stephen Carter of Britain?s Laboratory of the Government Chemist.
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