9% of Japanese school children suffer from allergic rhinitis

[mark_15]

yahoo Allergic rhinitis, which includes hay fever, afflicts 9.2 percent of the 12.77 million children in Japan's pubic schools, and 2.6 percent show symptoms of food allergies, according to an education ministry study released Wednesday. It is the first time that the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry has conducted an allergy study covering all the students at public elementary, junior high and senior high schools in the nation. Read more... (http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070411/kyodo/d8oeasd01.html)

[dcat]

anak ng teteng, na punyemas, na walang hiya! :mad:
ako nga eh, allergic sa alikabok, allergic sa kafun, sa pabago-bagong temperature -
sa lahat. :D
Kawawa naman yung mga bata, ang hirap kaya ng may allergic rhinitis...:(

[geminigirl]

:( hay ganun din po ako. got my rhinitis sa Japan during my stay in Osaka. hanggang ngayon nag-sasuffer pa rin ako. ang hirap ng may rhinits lalo't nagtrarabaho ka sa office at puro papel at alikabok ang nasa paligid mo. tapos paglabas mo ganun pa rin. wala pa naman cure ito.....kung tayong mga adults nga nahihrapan, lalo na mga bata. mas kaawaawa sila...