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was once a time when I would not have thought about child development and
research, but then I became a parent. When my daughter was born she had many
allergies, asthma and would always contract pneumonia and I was always
frustrated with her illnesses. Before we knew she had allergies we could not
figure out why she was getting sick but through various research studies
regarding asthma and other illness we learned that it was allergies causing her
health problems. When my son was born and suffered most of the same illnesses
we went back to the research that we retrieved when my daughter was born and learned
that he had the same allergies and illnesses as her. Without the research that
was done I may not have been able to determine what was wrong with either one of
my children and we would have spent even more time than we already had dealing
with hospital stays for pneumonia and discomfort for my children. Past research
studies were a great help to my children medically and while I do not believe
that studies should be harmful or dangerous to children I do believe that
research is important so as long as organizations are following a standard and
code of ethics research should continue.
Thank you for sharing you story. I can only imagine how frustrated you were when your 1st child keep getting sick. Allergies are such a pain....however I'm happy to hear that you figured out the cause of the illnesses. Research gives our society power to make change. When I had my youngest daughter she had lung disease and was on oxygen for months. In order to improve the lung disease she also had to receive Albuterol treatments which commonly used for asthma. Today she is no longer on oxygen or treatments.
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