Asthma connected with wealth levels

Poverty might be proving a major stint in our fight against deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS, diabetes, and cancer. However, situation changes dramatically when it comes to asthma, with majority of asthmatic patients coming from affluent countries like the US, UK, Netherlands…
Conclusion based on around 22 countries worldwide puts forth a shocking equation of asthma and wealth gap, which seems to be running parallel. Shockingly enough, where in unhygienic Indian cities like Mumbai kids susceptibility to asthma symptoms amounts just up to 2 %, so-called hygienic cities like that of Netherlands goes up to 59%.
As a whole, we could say that asthma rates among kids of wealthier countries are almost double if compared to less affluent nations. This weird equation asks for a deeper analysis, as to:
• How asthma is connected with wealth level?
• Why kids of wealthier nations are more vulnerable to asthma?
• How this enhanced level of asthma could be brought down?
Whatever comes out, finally? We can’t keep a blind eye to the fact that kids in wealthier nations often enjoy higher stands of living that include better hygiene, better health facilities, more reliance on indoor games, etc. All this somewhere is laming our kids, especially on health front, which is confirmed form the a fact according to which in America alone since 1980 there has been a greater than 100 percent increase in annual asthma-related deaths in the U.S. The following quip by krenz4 is a wonderful derision against these so-called hygienic societies:
…the human body needs some germs to operate properly. Wealthier American children have been sanitized and sterilized so much their bodies reject anything naturally occurring in their lives.
On the contrary, in developing countries, which are hygienically inferior this (asthmatic) rate is comparatively lower; but has started spiraling there too, now - thanks to rapid urbanization and fast industrialization. Well, not clear the reason behind this disparity. However, may be that kids’ exposure to some bacteria helps them develop resistance against bacteria-borne allergies, particularly asthma. It doesn’t mean that kids should be exposed intentionally to some bacteria or unhygienic conditions.
However, their mechanism should, at least, be allowed to develop some resistance against such common allergies; otherwise, in the name of providing kids with comforts, we would just be crippling them in one way or the other.
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