Researchers at the University of CA, Berkeley, have concluded that newborns who spend the first few months of their lives in mold season have a greatly likelihood of asthma within the first two years of life as opposed to those born in the spring and summer.

As many as forty percent of those children who experience respiratory like symptoms at an early age will grow up to be diagnosed with asthma.

After taking into account such factors as respiratory history, environmental pollution, exposure to tobacco smoke and indications of mold/fungus in the home, the study finds that babies born during the mold season, October through February, have triple the chance of developing asthma by age two.

High levels of mold spores, basidiospores and ascospores, emitted from mushrooms and outdoor molds had an association with asthma like symptoms at age two.

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