Asthma Allergies Children parent's web guide

We are having a picnic at our school for new families. One parent says that there is severe latex allergy in her family and requested that no one bring balloons to the event. Is this a reasonable request? –Parent coordinator

By Dr. Paul Ehrlich In March, I wrote about a New England Journal of Medicine article that showed a correlation between children growing up on German farms and a lower incidence of asthma than city kids. I wrote that this seemed to confirm aspects of the Hygiene Hypothesis, but that the popular press made too [...]