Allergy and Immunology News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.

• Intranasal steroids (INS) downregulate increased epithelial expression of COX-1 in nasal polyps http://is.gd/hJjk
  
  
• Children born by caesarean section have a higher risk of asthma than those born by vaginal delivery http://is.gd/hJib
  
  
• An unusual cause of allergy: Case report of normal saline solution allergy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov..
  
  
• Hospital disinfectants raise nurses' asthma risk http://is.gd/hQLm
  
  
• Nurses regularly exposed to cleaning chemicals and disinfectants were 72% more likely to be newly-diagnosed with asthma http://is.gd/hQLm

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