Sometimes allergies can lead to pink, irritated eyes. But allergic conjunctivitis, or “pink eye” may have a simple fix: physical fitness.
That’s the conclusion of researchers in Taiwan who tracked the health data of more than 1.2 million children. The kids were examined at age 10, sometime between 2010 and 2018.
The investigators also used Taiwan’s nationwide Physical Fitness Test to measure the children’s physical fitness.
Fitter kids were less likely to develop allergic conjunctivitis, the researchers found. Conversely, kids at increased risk for the condition were overweight, experienced greater exposure to air pollution, lived in densely populated urban areas, and had a history of asthma and/or allergic rhinitis (hay fever)….