Doctors have warned that obsessive focus on sterile and hygienic lives – triggered by a pandemic and emphasized by the use of excessive sanitisers – make mature conditions for an allergic increase among children.
There has been a drastic increase in allergic problems among children over the past decade and the doctor worries the graph will only rise.
Dr.
Sourya M, pediatric allergies and consultants, pediatric allergic clinics, KMC hospitals, told toi that allergies are one of the most common conditions among children, and occur due to complex interactions between genetic make-up and the child’s environment.
“With schools reopened in phases, children who remain indoors for more than a year will suddenly get dirt and allergens.
This can make them more susceptible to allergies, especially if they live in an obsessive cleaning environment,” said Dr.
Sailarya.
Pointing in the latest research, Dr.
Sailarya said that on average, the prevalence of allergic rhinitis was 11.3% in children aged 6-7 years in India, and 24.4% in children aged 13-14 years.
The prevalence of skin allergies and eczema is 2.7% among Indian children aged 6-7 years, and 3.6% among children aged 13-14 years.
Conversely, tolerable dirt can cause dangerous bug proliferation and infectious diseases that are far more dangerous.
“Wise and careful balance needs to be maintained between good cleanliness and obsessive cleaning to a sterile level, including the use of compulsive chemicals to achieve sanitation,” said Dr.
Sailarya.
“This is to maintain a good microbiota that is beneficial for the health of children.” Dr.
Prathap Chandra, a neonatological consultant and pediatrician, a motherly hospital, Bengaluru said a child born during a pandemic Covid-19 or just before the kuncian, can have sensitive airways.
And when children at home, they live in the Hypoallergenic environment.
“In general, children up to six years are permitted to seven to 10 infections per year,” said Dr.
Chandra.
“With the onset of the flu and the celebration season, children under three years have a higher risk of developing more significant viral infections this year.
This is because they are not exposed to short infections of other children because the school is closed and they have little or no.
Access to the play group.
“Dr.
Chandra said his hospital had noticed the sensitive airways among these children because their immune system had not faced infection.