New article on allergies

[Sandrine]

http://www.alternet.org/health/148949/are_we_killing_ourselves_with_cleanliness_as_number_of_allergy_sufferers_soar,_potential_cures_are_more_radical_/ 

What do you think about this???

[ASusan]

Eh - I can't see much that is new there, and I don't agree with the editoralizing - "radical" therapies.

(although it would appear that the writer was, in part, quoting a doctor who called the worm therapy radical).

At least the comments aren't of the "there is no such thing as an increase in allergies - people are just wusses" ilk that I read a few weeks ago in the Washington Post.

[menomena]

DH showed it to me this morning. I agree, not a whole lot of new info. It seems like allergies can have any number of influences (not necessarily "causes"). Being exposed to an ever-increasing number of chemicals is going to have an impact on the way our bodies function...