Dust mite information site for people with asthma, rhinitis or eczema.

1978 – The mite is recognised as the major trigger for childhood asthma in the UK

Doctors, working with children diagnosed with allergic asthma, recognise that house dust mites are a major contributor to the disease. The doctors try to lessen the children´s symptoms by using a series of injections (immunotherapy) against mite allergy.

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1. 2000 – Medical confirmation that sensitization to house dust mites in childhood is dose-dependent, and in children with mite-related asthma further exposure can make their asthma worse
2. 1971 – Immunotherapy, a pioneering treatment for mite allergy, is investigated in clinics.
3. 2011 – SLIT not not effective in house dust mite allergic children 6-18
4. 1990 – Doctors describe a link between mite exposure, childhood asthma and a specific gene
5. 1998 – Scientists explain how mite allergens can cause and trigger allergic asthma

´Controlled Trial of Hyposensitisation to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus in Children with Asthma´,1978, Warner JO, Price JF, Soothill JF, Hey EN, October 28th 1978, The Lancet, p 912