{"id":25878,"date":"2025-11-02T19:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=25878"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:51:57","slug":"no-allergy-protection-of-children-by-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/11\/no-allergy-protection-of-children-by-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"No allergy protection of children by farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have written before <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/iid3.378\">about the myth of an allergy protection <\/a>here in Bavaria while we now have an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchsquare.com\/article\/rs-7981632\/v1\">empirical proof<\/a> &#8211; it is a non causal association introduced by colliding.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately millions of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerzteblatt.de\/archiv\/erika-von-mutius-leibniz-preis-fuer-paediaterin-c3ca3aea-6c9f-46da-8d60-b8d9403de438\"> tax payer money<\/a>\u00a0 have \u00a0been wasted on that idea, misleading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/wissen\/allergien-schutz-ein-leben-lang-1.3180770\">newspaper articles<\/a> published and <a href=\"https:\/\/dzl.de\/news\/bayrischer-maximiliansorden-fuer-erika-von-mutius\/\">\u00a0fancy prices given<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/08\/dung-hill-counting\/\">obsession with dung hills<\/a> originates (early childhood trauma?) and why this had been prized many times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25879\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-11-02-um-17.25.24.jpg\" rel=\"key\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25879 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-11-02-um-17.25.24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jachenau Ortsschild 31.10.2025 mit K\u00fchen auf der Weide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jachenau was one of my favorite locations in the 1989\/1990 Upper Bavarian Allergy Study where we (re)discovered the low allergy prevalence in farmers that had been forgotten for a century.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25885\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-11-02-um-18.39.56.jpg\" rel=\"key\" data-rel=\"key-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"https:\/\/opentopomap.org\/#map=14\/47.60231\/11.44020\" data-rl_caption=\"https:\/\/opentopomap.org\/#map=14\/47.60231\/11.44020\" title=\"https:\/\/opentopomap.org\/#map=14\/47.60231\/11.44020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25885 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-11-02-um-18.39.56-620x474.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-11-02-um-18.39.56-620x474.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-11-02-um-18.39.56-654x500.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-11-02-um-18.39.56-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-11-02-um-18.39.56.jpg 1401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/opentopomap.org\/#map=14\/47.60231\/11.44020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We had been in Jachenau on April 30, 1990. Examining 20 kids we found zero asthma, zero allergic rhinitis and just 2 out of 20 children showed borderline positive grass skin prick tests at 3 mm and 4 mm wheal size respectively. This was definitely one of the lowest prevalences but not only in the children, also in their parents and is being confirmed now 3 decades later by meta-analysis of many more farming studies.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 24.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written before about the myth of an allergy protection here in Bavaria while we now have an empirical proof &#8211; it is a non causal association introduced by colliding. Unfortunately millions of tax payer money\u00a0 have \u00a0been wasted on that idea, misleading newspaper articles published and \u00a0fancy prices given. I have no idea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/11\/no-allergy-protection-of-children-by-farms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No allergy protection of children by farms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3278,4199,5081,5080,5078,2117],"class_list":["post-25878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","tag-bayern","tag-markus-soder","tag-ministerprasident","tag-preis","tag-werner-bartens","tag-sz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25878"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25915,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878\/revisions\/25915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}