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The Hygiene Hypothesis and the Primary Prevention of Allergic Diseases

Author(s) -

I Huthman,

Olugbenga Olaseinde,

Thomas Adenowo,

A K Adefule,

A Huthman

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

the internet journal of asthma allergy and immunology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1532-0642

DOI - 10.5580/b1

Subject(s) - hygiene hypothesis , hygiene , primary prevention , medicine , primary (astronomy) , primary care , environmental health , immunology , dermatology , allergy , family medicine , disease , pathology , physics , astronomy

It has been suggested that there has been an increase in atopy and allergic diseases over the last 30 years; these diseases include allergic rhinitis, atopic asthma, and atopic dermatitis. Multiple explanations have been proffered to explain the increase in atopy and related diseases with the hygiene hypothesis the front-running theory. Before addressing the mechanism of the increase in such atopic diseases, it must be questioned whether allergic diseases have really increased. When isolating atopic asthma as the disease of interest, it is unclear whether or not there has actually been an increase in incidence of this disease.

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