1. Apples

Apples are eaten by women during pregnancy was help prevent asthma and allergies in children. Flavonoid in apples that provide these benefits.
A new study examining nearly 2000 foods pregnant women and checked the lung health of their children in 1253 at the age of 5 years.

Among the variety of foods eaten and recorded by pregnant women, only apple consumption showed a consistent protection against asthma and shortness of breath.

The children of pregnant mothers who eat more than 4 apples per week as much as 37% which is less a history of shortness of breath and had 53% less asthma after doctors confirmed, compared with mothers who ate one or no apples per week during pregnancy.

According to the researchers, the food eaten by mothers during pregnancy have a greater influence on children than respiratory channel food consumption of the child at least until the age of 5 years.

The existence of specific relationships found in apples, and not by the total number of edible fruit or juice, fruit juice or vegetable consumption.

Apple-specific effect may be due to the unique flavonoids have been shown to have beneficial effects on lung function of adults.

2. Intestine worms

So far, the worms that live in human intestines known only as parasites and bullies only. But researchers from the UK and Vietnam found that intestinal worms can be beneficial for the treatment of asthma and allergies.

A study in Vietnam showed that the parasitic worms that live in human intestines such as hookworm, allows to be developed as new treatments to overcome asthma and allergies.

Infection caused by hookworm and other parasites have become endemic in Vietnam, but the average asthma and allergic disease is still fairly low in the area. Researchers from the UK and Vietnam provide care to children around to clean the child’s body from intestinal worm infections.
Experts believe that over millions of years evolving worms, so that it can reduce the human immune system that cause these worms can prolong survival in the human body.

The selected area as a research center is a village in central Vietnam, where any two of the three children infected with hookworm and other intestinal parasites are rarely found and allergic diseases. The study involved 1500 school children aged 6 to 17 years. Some children were given tablets to clean the worms over the body and found the children who received these tablets risk of allergy increased significantly.

Obtained more than 80 percent of people with asthma also have allergies to dust or other environmental allergens, and researchers are convinced that the worms in the intestine have the potential to alter the human immune response.

“The next step is to understand exactly how these intestinal parasites affect the human immune system and protects against allergies,” said Dr Carsten Flohr, a researcher from the University of Nottingham, as quoted by the BBC, Wednesday (30/9/2009).

Flohr hope these results can help the development of new treatments to balance the body’s immune system that does not respond to allergens or does not trigger an asthma attack. However, still need a long scientific research to determine whether this method really works to overcome asthma and allergies in humans.