Serious Warning about Eating Hedgehog Meat for Treatment of Asthma

Allergic asthma as a heterogeneous disease, is a main global problem in health. Newly, 300 million people worldwide have asthma. In recent years, asthma has become an increasingly prevalent disease worldwide, especially for children. Allergic asthma is characterized by symptoms of wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, airway inflammation. Asthma has a strong genetic background but exposing to allergens and other nonspecificenvironmental factors could activate this susceptibility. The involved allergen specific immune response induces T helper 2 lymphocytes that active eosinophils, mast cells, basophils, airway epithelial cells, and immunoglobulinsecreting B cells that lead to allergic and inflammation responses (Bel, 2013; Corren et al., 2011). Today, several drugs have been developed to control asthma. Traditional medicines, especially herbal ones havebeen used to control and manage it for a long time. Recently, tends to traditional medicine has been increased due to their low side effects and cost (Athari, 2013; Bel, 2013).