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who develop allergies to things such as dust and cat hair or wheeze because of them are more likely to suffer from asthma when they are older. A German study sampling 1,300 children aged under three found a significant difference between those who were persistently wheezy and those who reacted to allergens. Around 90 per cent of the persistently wheezy children lost their symptoms by the time they went to school.

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