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Passive smoking at a very young age considerably increases risk of development of food and respiratory allergy later, inform Swedish researchers in an article published in magazine Thorax.

As it appeared, smoking during pregnancy did not influence on atopic sensitization of babies (an initial stage of allergy), whereas babies whose mothers smoked at their presence, already in the age of 2 months had twice high probability of development of allergy to cat’s wool (antibody Е in their blood twice more often jointed allergen of cat’s wool), and in the age of 4 years had 1,5 times higher probability of food allergy, inform Eva Lannero (Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm) and her colleagues.