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and Sensitization in Steiner School Children is featured in the January 2006

issue of the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (JACI) and is currently

available on the JACI's Web site at www.jacionline.org. The JACI is the

peer-reviewed, scientific journal of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma

and Immunology (AAAAI). The study, which focused on more than 6,600 from five

European countries ages 5 to 13, showed that children in the Steiner schools,

which are similar to Waldorf schools, who are often raised in an anthroposophic

lifestyle, have a lower risk of allergy. Austrian scientist and philosopher

Rudolf Steiner developed the anthroposophic lifestyle in which health is a

combination of mind, body and spiritual balance; his followers integrate both

modern medicine with alternative, nature-based treatments. The study compared

the Steiner school children with their non-Steiner counterparts who lived in

the same region. The purpose of the

Prevention of Allergy--Risk Factors for Sensitization Related to Farming and

Anthroposophic Lifestyle (PARSIFAL) study was to identify possible protective

factors for allergy associated with the anthroposophic lifestyle. A previous

Swedish study showed a reduced risk of atophy, but the specific reason behind

that was not discovered. Information about environmental exposure, history of

infections, diet, animal contact, anthroposophic lifestyle and symptoms and

diagnoses of allergic diseases was collected through a parental questionnaire.

A blood sample was also collected from the children who resided in Austria,

Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Researchers observed a lower

prevalence of current symptoms and doctor's diagnosis of rhinoconjunctivitis and

atopic eczema and asthma and atopic sensitization in the Steiner school children

compared to non-Steiner children. Early use of antibiotics and fever reducers,

along with the measles, mumps

and rubella vaccination were also associated with increased risks of several

allergic symptoms and doctor's diagnoses. ### To find an

allergist/immunologist in your area, call the AAAAI Physician Referral and

Information Line at 800-822-2762 or visit the AAAAI Web site at www.aaaai.org.

The AAAAI is the largest professional medical specialty organization in the

United States representing allergists, asthma specialists, clinical

immunologists, allied health professionals and others with a special interest

in the research and treatment of allergic disease. Allergy/immunology

specialists are pediatric or internal medicine physicians who have elected an

additional two years of training to become specialized in the treatment of

asthma, allergy and immunologic disease. Established in 1943, the AAAAI has

more than 6,000 members in the United States,

Canada and 60 other countries. The AAAAI serves as an advocate to the public by

providing educational information through its Web site at www.aaaai.org.

This story has been adapted from a news release issued by American Academy of

Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that

withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." -

Aurobindo.

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