The old adage that greater the problems we encounter the stronger we become may hold a grain of truth after all. According to a survey conducted by the University of Copenhagen on 400 babies infants who encounter a wide range of bacteria are less at risk of developing allergies later in life. In our study we observed a direct link between the number of different bacteria in the mother’s rectum and the risk of development of allergic disease later in the infant says Hans Bisgaard professor of children's diseases University of Copenhagen who led the study. So it makes