This week’s episode talks everything allergy. Greg and I discuss why allergies are increasingly common, how allergies develop, and what we can do to raise children who are at lower risk. We discuss recent research around the airway microbiome and on the effects of washing babies on their skin health.
Topics covered
How your airway microbiome affects your long-term lung health [01:31]
How washing babies affects their skin barrier [06:15]
How eczema is linked to allergy and asthma [09:55]
How exposure affects risk of allergy [19:05]
How we inadvertently damage our babies’ skin barriers [25:40]
How the microbiome is involved in allergy [30:00]
How we can help reduce the risk of children developing allergies [38:00]
Resources mentioned
Setting up for comfortable scalps
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Can diapers cause food allergies?
Come learn more about protecting children from diaper dermatitis to protect their immune health...
Great article here with some lovely diagrams on the epithelial barrier hypothesis of allergy: https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(21)01767-X/fulltext
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