Childhood on a farm protected against allergic rhinitis throughout young adulthood, whether or not children stayed on the farm through puberty, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
But growing up on a farm did not significantly protect children against wheeze, Sonja Strieker, MSc, research assistant with the Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital in Munich, and colleagues found.
The researchers examined data of 1,333 participants from the cross-sectional multidisciplinary