1. Saliva contact during infancy and allergy development in school-age children
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Yoshimi Kubo, DDS, PhD, Nobuo Kanazawa, MD, PhD, Hironobu Fukuda, MD, PhD, Yutaka Inaba, MD, PhD, Naoya Mikita, MD, PhD, Masatoshi Jinnin, MD, PhD, Fukumi Furukawa, MD, PhD, Yasushi Kuraishi, PhD, and Shigemi Yoshihara, MD, PhD
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Allergy ,eczema ,allergic rhinitis ,saliva contact ,eating utensils ,pacifier ,Immunologic diseases. Allergy ,RC581-607 - Abstract
Background: Parent-child saliva contact during infancy might stimulate the child’s immune system for effective allergy prevention. However, few studies have investigated its relation to allergy development in school-age children. Objective: We sought to investigate the relationship between parent-child saliva contact during infancy and allergy development at school age. Methods: We performed a large multicenter cross-sectional study involving Japanese school children and their parents. The self-administered questionnaires including questions from the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood were distributed to 3570 elementary and junior high school children in 2 local cities. Data were analyzed for the relationship between saliva contact during infancy (age
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- 2023
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