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Michigan study shows use of antibiotics may be factor in asthma, allergies.

The Blade (Toledo, OH)

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Byline: Jenni Laidman

Dec. 23--If Christmas trees make you wheeze, or dogs and pollen make you sneeze, take note: Your asthma and allergies may be an unintended gift of the antibiotics you took years earlier.

A team of researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School gave mice allergies by pretreating the animals with an antibiotic. The experiment provides support to studies hinting at a connection between antibiotic use and asthma. These epidemiological studies show increased rates of asthma wherever antibiotic use is common.

Asthma cases in the United States climbed 75 percent from 1980 to 1994.

Toledo's adult asthma rate in a 2002 survey by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was 13.7 percent, the highest in Ohio.

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