Mites Information - December 4, 2008

Lindane: Pesticide or Medicine? EPA Bans And FDA Still Approves

August 14, 2006 - Topics medicine, fda, lindane, mites and scabies
According to the website www.headlice.org/lindane , the medicine currently used by many parents on their children for lice and mites, is actually "a nerve poison," which is an "organochlorine pesticide."

Lindane is a pesticide that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to ban this August for agricultural use in the United States, yet the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) still approves the sale of Lindane as a medicine to be used on childrens' heads and bodies

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Study Shows Asthma Prevention Attempt Failed

July 26, 2006 - Topics study, asthma, allergy, research and mites
New research shows that children, who have a family history of asthma, can not be prevented from getting asthma by being exposed to house dust mites or with dietary changes.

Published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the study involved over 600 kids

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Germs Can Make Babies Healthy

April 5, 2006 - Topics babies, asthma, child, allergy and disease

Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Contributor

Fort Lauderdale, FL (AHN)- Immunology experts are beginning to agree that germs that many parents bleach and disinfect out of existence might help children. Studies show that exposure to germs help building child's immunity to the diseases caused by them

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Your Pillow May Be A Health Hazard

October 14, 2005 - Topics disease, nutrition, aspergillosis, asthma and mites
Researchers at The University of Manchester discover millions of fungal spores right under our noses- in our pillows. Bed bugs may bite but, these spores are the leading cause of death in leukemia and transplant patients.

Aspergillus fumigatus, the species most commonly found in pillows, is most likely to cause disease; and the resulting condition Aspergillosis has become the leading infectious cause of death in leukaemia and bone marrow transplant patients. Fungi can also exacerbate asthma in adults

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