Playing in mud and dirt can boost your child’s immune system – here’s how | The-14 Playing in mud exposes kids to beneficial microbes, boosting immunity, reducing allergy risks, and supporting healthy immune and brain development.

Playing in mud and dirt can boost your child’s immune system – here’s how
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📰 Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases

💬 Finnish study: dirt-loving kids have fewer allergies. Cleanliness isn't so holy after all. 🦠 #HygieneHypothesis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43370956

#Immunologists need to get out of the lab more 😉

#HygieneHypothesis #RunWild #RunFree #BGood

Characterization of a chitinase from Trichinella spiralis and its immunomodulatory effects on allergic airway inflammation in mice - Parasites & Vectors Background A fundamental tenet of the hygiene theory is the inverse association between helminth infections and the emergence of immune-mediated diseases. Research has been done to clarify the process...

Nice study exploring the effect of a #helminth protein on allergic #airway #inflammation

The #hygienehypothesis has recently gained new support even outside the field of #allergy (e.g. in #obesity also associated with chronic inflammation)

parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

CZ: Thanks! More stuff in the works with those folks. RT @shornicl: @carlzimmer Great Radio Lab today! #hygienehypothesis #parasites