According to data from the World Allergy Association, up to 40 % of the world’s population suffers from an allergy. Allergies can start at any age, and no one is immune to them. Let’s look at nine of the reasons for this.
Dr. Nína
Heredity. Your father and mother each have a 30-40 % risk of inheriting allergies, and if both parents have them, up to 70 %. Accordingly, the more adults that have allergies the more children inherit the disease.
The desire for sterility. In 1989, scientist David Strachan formulated the so-called "hygiene hypothesis". ===The hypothesis is that the less frequently people encounter bacteria in everyday life, the lower the bacterial and viral load, and the higher the risk of allergies. Statistics confirm the theory: rural residents have allergies much less frequently than city dwellers.
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