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Study elucidates mechanisms behind protective farm effect on childhood asthma – News-Medical.Net

Asthma impacts millions of children already at a young age. Children growing up on a farm have a lower risk of developing asthma than children not living on a farm….

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Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 2 2020
Asthma impacts millions of children already at a young age. Children growing up on a farm have a lower risk of developing asthma than children not living on a farm. The mechanisms behind this protective farm effect on childhood asthma are largely unknown. A group of researchers from Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital of Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU) clarified how the children’s gut microbiome is involved…

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