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epiphiny43 -> RE: Staying in Farms Prevent Asthma in Children (8/4/2016 5:06:03 PM)
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Doctors everywhere have cultural 'attitudes' apart from evidence based practice, the same as everyone else. Each nation has it's insane medical 'practices'. The amount of 'surgical interventions' (Caesarian Sections) in child birth in the US is at 33%??? Double WHO recommendations (And most any other country's rate) for good medical practice. More for scheduling reasons than medical ones, and presenting known risks for future pregnancies.
Pets cause more allergies among Adults, who already are sensitive. Children up to some undetermined age are better off with exposure to as wide a variety of natural proteins as possible. Another study showed that children in cities have more asthma and allergies than rural kids, the further up multi-story residential buildings they lived in, the more of these issues. (Pushing 100% for upper floor kids, IIRC) Farm yard 'playing' children (Lived there, not just 'visiting') had the least. Not zero but much closer. Current US stats for asthma and lung related allergies are approaching 50% of US kids overall, the current thinking is from too 'clean' of environments. Leaving young immune systems 'uneducated' as to the difference between body proteins and 'foreign' ones, and which foreign ones should be attacked as disease agents. The whole asthma complex along with the majority of 'arthritis' and others are thought to be mostly unhealthy/inappropriate immune system attacks on vital body tissues or functions. One friend has with Osteoarthritus has No cushioning tissues left in any of her joints. Life is literally a pain.
The conclusion is children 'learn' appropriate immune responses to both 'native' and 'outside the body' proteins when young, react disproportionally for good health when the immune system is not educated/exposed till after the 'learning' period or when adults.
This leaves untouched the whole area of our novel exposure in the global technological/chemical consumer society, urban or rural, of massive exposure to a multitude of chemicals and materials wholly new in the human experience, many of which are already known to be serious risks to immature or mature humans, but 'Generally Regarded As Safe' because monied interests lobby against rational regulation of items someone is making money selling. (So, we have one in nine American women developing breast cancer well before something else kils them. But that's just women, and not a concern to male dominated industry or Govt. regulators and medical professionals. Breast cancer rate was vanishingly small in 1900.) PFOA, PFOS and HFCS near the top of my personal list. I'd put a lot of the EPA and FDA in prison, and make regulators and legislators individually civilly and criminally libel for their decisions that go against evidence they had at hand. As well as individual decision makers in corporations, rather than simple corporate financial liability at some time in the future, maybe.
Much of the relevant dept. of DuPont, and executives past and present higher up, should already be incarcerated now that their suppression of in-house studies of the dangers of Teflon, etc., are known. Simply hiding negative studies should be cause to pull professional degrees and certifications, and banning from relevant industry employment. Putting the criminals who kept Tobacco a not just viable but massively profitable industry for many decades after the studies were conclusive should decimate several industries of executives, and strip the Climate Denier PR industry and the US Right Wing generally of most spokesmen, who simply changed subjects and employers, different lyrics, same dance, same tune.
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