Does day care, preschool, etc. Have an effect on children developing allergies or asthma?

Dr. Brahma PrakashPulmonologist13yrs exp

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The matter is controversial, some children may have frequent infections acquired from other children, when they are genetically susceptible for allergy or asthma and so may have frequent symptoms, but if we go with hygiene hypothesis, if some one is exposed to allergens in childhood frequently, and gets frequent episodes of exposure to infections may also develop immunity towards them and may have lesser chances of adulthood asthma and allergies. So exactly what will happen in difficult to guess. There are many questions for which medical science still does not have definite answers, but rest assured, we doctors and researchers are working on them day and night to solve them one day. 

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