Regular exercise might help chidren fight hay fever

Researchers from GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health in Neuherberg, Germany found that regular exercise might offer children some protection from the sniffs and sneezes of hay fever. This could be de to the finding by other studies that moderate exercise may benefit immune system function.

Sedentary children were found to have more than twice the rate of hay fever as the regularly active kids, and their risk of developing the allergy was also increased during the study. More tests need to be done to confirm this.

Working place condition a causative factor in developing asthma

The University of Helsinki in Finland concludes in the American Journal of Epidemiology that a number of materials used in furnishing indoor environments may emit pollutants with the capacity to irritate the airways leading to increase adults' risk of developing asthma.

The researchers fund that workers exposed to plastic wall coverings on the job would had an increased asthma risk of 2.43-fold while people who worked in offices with wall-to-wall carpeting were 1.73 times more likely to develop asthma. In the case of mold being present at a person's workplace with wall-to-wall carpeting, the risk of developing asthma was worst (more than quadrupled).

New nasal spray approved by FDA

A new nasal spray manufactured by ALTANA Pharma US, Inc. of Florham Park, New Jersey has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seasonal and perennial hay fever.
The spray contains a type of corticosteroid that is anti-inflammatory drugs and could mimic the body's hormones to increase the level of steroids in the body. This lead to the shrinking of inflamed tissue and reduction in mucus flow.