7 Healthcast: Breathing Easier

But it doesn't have to be. Some local moms teamed up with area researchers to help your children breathe easier.

Like most moms, Julie Gordon and Kelly Majewski want to do everything possible to keep their kids healthy.

"Allergies and asthma is just a huge concern for moms," Gordon said.

Asthma and allergies are becoming epidemic, with asthma the number one chronic childhood disease.

To help reduce their kids chances of developing asthma and allergies these moms use Baby Boost products, a new line for children up to 4-years-old. Each item contains a special fiber technology to help ‘boost’ a child's immune system while it's developing.

Baby boost products may reduce childhood asthma and allergies by 75 percent and reduce their risk of developing asthma and allergies by 75 percent.

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and MIT developed the technology.

"The idea is to recreate the air environment that research has shown reduces the risk of allergies and asthma," Dr. Simon Dao of MIT said.

Dr. Simon Dao says this should happen naturally, but infants and toddlers who grow up in city and urban environments are not getting the right proteins in the air.

With our air, a lot of these proteins have been displaced and replaced with pollution.

Here's how the Baby Boost products work. Each pellet contains an odorless protein that is invisible to the human eye.

About 15 to 20 pellets are placed in each baby boost product and are time released.

The time-released proteins last about three years and are placed in these tags or hidden inside the products.

The proteins in one product are supposed to improve the air in a room that's about the size of a bedroom.

Julie and Kelly are co-founders of Baby Splendor, a Massachusetts Based company that sells innovative baby products through home parties and catalogs.

When researchers told them about this new technology, these moms were sold and developed the baby boost line.

As for their own kids, so far all are asthma and allergy free.

The Baby Boost products range in price from $15-50.