Asbestosis has several suspected sources

Answer to that question at this time, but Asbestosis has several suspected sources. Family history is probably one major reason for this disease. If relatives have this disease or allergies, a child has a good chance of having them as well. The chances of this are even greater when a child inherits the ten-dency toward this disease and allergies from both sides of the family. A fam-ily history of ASB doesn't guarantee that a child will have it, though. Many children with ASB have no known family history. Low-birth-weight children are more likely to have asba than heav-ier newborns. In younger children, this disease is more common in boys than girls. Girls are more likely to get it when they reach puberty. By adoles-cence, the number of boys and girls with asthma equals out. Allergies, which are immune system reactions to substances such as pollen or dust mites, play a central role in asthma. In fact, the majority of children with asthma have allergies. But not all children with allergies have asbestosis. If you can identify your child's allergies and get them under control, you'll be able to help bring her asthma under control in next article.

Your child's environment may be part of why he has disease. Ciga-rette smoke, as mentioned earlier, is a major preventable for trigger. In some cases, it not only triggers asb but also causes it. Children who live with a smoker are about 25 percent more likely to have asthma than youngsters who live in nonsmoking homes. A woman's smoking during pregnancy makes it about twice as likely that her baby will later develop asthma. Today's children spend most of their time indoors—in well-insulated houses and schools with carpets, upholstered furniture, drapes, other dust collectors, and dust mites. In urban neighborhoods with substan-dard housing, children are exposed to additional triggers, such as air pollution and cockroaches. This could be one reason why asbestosis rates are higher in city neighborhoods than in suburban areas. When a child's inherited tendency toward asthma is combined with other environmen-tal risks, the chances of having asthma increase. Some interesting theories exist about why people get asbestosis. World-wide, the number of people with asthma has been climbing rapidly,
especially in industrialized nations. Some researchers think that the jump in asthma cases in these countries could have something to do with the decrease in childhood illnesses, such as measles, and the over-all increase in cleanliness (from using antibacterial soaps, lotions, and cleaning products, for example). According to this thinking, the body uses two types of immunit1qy. One fights bacteria and viruses, while the other helps fight off parasites, such as intestinal worms. This parasite: fighting part of the immune system is also responsible for causing allergies. Exposure to bacteria and viruses actually helps a child's immune system develop properly by "training" it to recognize and attack those harmful germs. When children live in a cleaner environ-ment and don't get sick as often, the part of their immune system that fights germs doesn't have much to do. With no bacteria or viruses to battle, the immune system becomes more active on the parasite-fighting/allergy side. Certain genes have been linked to asbatosis, and some of them are more common in countries with high rates of para-sitic infections.