1) “All about your health” this is our journal.

Let me present a little storyline (history) of this

journal and what materials it includes. The purpose of this journal is to share as much
information as possible related to medicine and to talk about problems that occur in adults and
children.

First of all we want to introduce a little what this article is about.

2)More evidence that animals reduce childhood allergies

From the title we already understand what this article is about, it is about allergies and the
facts and evidence that animals reduce childhood allergies. There were hygiene hypothesis,
outlined in 1989 by David Strachan of St George’s, at a hospital and medical school in
London. It suggests that the rise of allergenic sensitivity observed in rich countries over the
course of the 20th century may have been caused by a corresponding decline in childhood
infections, and also by a shift from rural to urban living, so that children are no longer
routinely exposed to farm animals.

3)Doctor Strachan has done a lot of research and has come up with a lot of important facts.
For example, he says, that what the catchy label has fostered, however, is an erroneous belief
that cleanliness is not necessarily a health benefit.

4) In reality, says Thomas Marrs, a paediatric allergist at Kings College, London, hygiene is
usually about bugs causing infection—and the bugs that may be beneficial are different from
those which do that. But there was one question that was left unanswered, why alternative
descriptions, such as “the high turnover and diversity hypothesis” or “the microbial
deprivation hypothesis”, have not caught on, more accurate though they may be.

5) Okabe Hisao of Fukushima Medical University and his colleagues have trawled through
the Japan Environment and Children’s Study, which tracked over 100,000 pregnancies
between 2011 and 2014. Pursuing the animal connection, they looked for correlations
between household pet ownership before and immediately after a child’s birth, and any food
allergies diagnosed in that child’s first three years.

4) Of the 66,000 or so children they chose to look at, 22% had been born into households
with pets. Children in households with dogs, the researchers found, had lower rates than
average of allergies to eggs, milk and nuts. After many such obscure researches it became
clear that both pre- and postpartum exposure were needed for the observed effects to show
up. And, as Dr Marrs observes, allergy-prone families are less likely to own pets in the first
place.

All this of course needs further study, however Dr. Strachan and Dr. Okabe’s contribution to
this research is great.
5)This article is published on the webside “The Economist” on Mar 29 th 2023.

The headline is so interesting and it gives a lot of information what the article is about.

The front side and style is normal as classic article titles should be. The font size is a little big.

This article has also a slogan. Which is the following: “Except for hamsters, which make things worse”.

And this article appeared in the Science and technology section of the print edition under the headline
“Pet theories”.