I always wondered why some kids get asthma at a very young age, while others don’t. Certainly environmental factors, such as pollution, are a big factor. But now researchers are also looking at stress as a possible cause.

It’s not such a big leap. Stress certainly can aggravate asthma, so why not add to its development? More than that, however, researchers are combining stress and pollution to determine their effect on asthma. Specifically, the stress of parents. They found that kids with “with stressed-out parents who lived around high levels of traffic-related pollution were at …read more

The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine recently published a new study that shows babies born four months before the peak of the winter virus season were more likely to develop asthma than babies born at any other time of the year.
Why?
Because being born at that time of the year increases the chance of a respiratory infection during infancy, which also increases the chance of asthma.
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