There is a raging debate as to whether or not allergies cause asthma. It's a proven fact that 70-85 percent of asthmatic children have allergies, so any theory that one might cause the other makes sense.
As far back as 400 B.C. Hippocrates observed that asthma tends to run in families. Starting in the 1990s scientists started discovering various genes that were proven to predispose a carrier to developing diseases such as asthma, allergies and eczema. Read More »
