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Hey, Kids! Don’t Breathe the Traffic

June 17, 2008 by MedHeadlines  
Filed under Allergy, Asthma, Children's Health, Editor's Picks, Lifestyle, Medical Research, Prevention

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Kids are used to hearing they shouldn’t play in traffic but now a study of children, traffic, and allergies points to problems with allergies and other associated ailments when children live near major roadways and breathe the traffic-polluted air. The German study indicates living as close as 55 yards (or not quite 50 meters) from a busy road ups a child’s risk of developing allergies by about 50%. Read more

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