Re: Mold May Trigger Severe Asthma in Some Folks

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From: KC <tigerpaw2c@...>

Subject: [] Mold May Trigger Severe Asthma in Some Folks

Date: Thursday, June 24, 2010, 7:07 PM

Mold May Trigger Severe Asthma in Some Folks

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=117503

SOURCE: American Thoracic Society, news release, June 24, 2010

THURSDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) -- Living in a home with high levels of mold

may increase the risk of severe asthma attacks in people with certain gene

variants, finds a new study.

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Excellent find, KC.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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Mold May Trigger Severe Asthma in Some Folks

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=117503

SOURCE: American Thoracic Society, news release, June 24, 2010

THURSDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) -- Living in a home with high

levels of mold may increase the risk of severe asthma attacks in people

with certain gene variants, finds a new study.

" We found that the interaction between environmental mold exposure

and certain variants of chitinase genes were positively associated with

severe asthma exacerbations requiring hospitalization, " lead researcher

Ann Wu, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard

Pilgrim Health Care Institute, said in an American Thoracic Society news

release.

Chitinases, which break down a component in fungi called chitin, are

induced during allergic inflammation. It's known that people with

asthma have higher expression of certain variants of chitinase.

In this study, Wu and colleagues analyzed data from the Childhood

Asthma Management Program, a trial that enrolled children between the

ages of 5 and 12 with mild to moderate persistent asthma. The children's

homes were classified as having more or less than 25,000 mold colonies

per gram of household dust. A level greater than 25,000 is considered

high for a home.

The researchers also conducted genetic tests on blood samples taken

from the children. They concluded that certain variants of the chitinase

gene CHIT1, along with exposure to high levels of mold, are associated

with an increased risk of severe asthma attacks.

The study, published online June 24 and in an upcoming print issue of

the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine,

suggests that chitinases may offer a target for new types of asthma

treatments.

-- Preidt

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[Guest guest]

Therefore, asthma sufferers may actually have a superior way of destroying mold

within their body, with the problem being, that perhaps the same enzyme

(assuming chitikinase? is an enzyme) that breaks down mold is also associated

with the other asthmatic symptoms. Who would have guessed that this could be a

possibility? Asthmatics may very well be at the advantage, and the MD community

was just trying to supress their body's natural healing/defensive response to

their toxic environment with drugs, instead of changing the environment. Same

old story. If the body's natural, inate intelligence, born of God, is not

performing as human science expects it to, medically trained humans ASSume it's

something wrong with God's creation, our genes, instead of exploring the real

problem, a dirty environment, a LEAKY ROOF!