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Primary prevention of allergy: avoiding risk or providing protection?
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Feb 2008
Hamelmann E, Beyer K, Gruber C, Lau S, Matricardi P M, Nickel R, Niggemann B, Wahn U
Abstract excerpt
Primary prevention strategies of allergy so far have been aimed to fight allergy causes, by avoiding risk factors and inhibiting their mechanisms of action. The results of trials testing food or airborne allergen avoidance as a prevention strategy were, however, rather disappointing. A reverse approach for primary prevention of allergies aims to facilitate exposure to protecting factors which promote the...
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