Parents may protect babies against future allergies by sucking on kids' pacifiers

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Old Mike

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Posted 5/6/2013 4:59 PM (GMT 0)

FYI: What our parents did or did not do,seems to effect our immune system.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57583006/parents-may-protect-babies-against-future-allergies-by-sucking-on-kids-pacifiers/

kazbern

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Posted 5/6/2013 6:29 PM (GMT 0)

We heard this story today on NPR and my younger daughter, who never used a paci, asked how we dealt with this in her case. I told her she never used a paci, that nursing was her paci, and she squinched up her face and said EWWWW.

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imagardener2

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Posted 5/7/2013 1:03 AM (GMT 0)

So I can blame my childhood asthma on my parents cleanliness? Fascinating.
Aso interesting that poor children have less peanut allergies than richer kids.

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