Dear Friends:
I wonder if recent studies about infant feeding method and asthma have
taken this interesting research into account:
_http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4801118.stm_
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4801118.stm)
Baby antibiotics 'link to asthma'
A Canadian study of 12,082 children suggests those treated with antibiotics
under the age of one are twice as likely to develop asthma in childhood.
And researchers writing in US journal Chest found additional courses of
antibiotics in the first year of life increased asthma risk still further.
Earlier studies suggested the drugs may affect the way the immune system
works. Experts believe they kill off beneficial bacteria in the intestine and
that this may lead to changes in the way the body deals with disease.
Lead study author Carlo Marra, of the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, said: "Antibiotic use in children has been found to coincide with an
increased incidence of childhood asthma."
"Although the causal nature between antibiotics and asthma is still unclear,
our overall results show that treatment with at least one antibiotic as an
infant appears to be associated with the development of childhood asthma."
The Canadian team reviewed seven studies comparing exposure to at least one
antibiotic to no exposure in the first year of life.
This analysis looked at 12,082 children and found 1,817 asthma cases were
reported.
Overall, infants who were exposed to at least one antibiotic were twice as
likely as unexposed infants to develop asthma during childhood.
The team also analysed data from five studies including 27,167 children
looking at antibiotic doses.
It found that for each extra course of antibiotics during the first year of
life a child was 1.16 times more likely to develop asthma.
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Dr. Michel Odent has written about the link between cesarean section and
asthma that has been identified in several studies. When a baby is born
bypassing the normal route (vaginally), the baby gets colonized with the wrong
bacteria. Instead of getting inoculated with its mothers gut flora, that infant gut
gets primed with whatever bacteria are in the operating room: hospital
germs, plus the germs living in the OR staff.
Another serious consideration in the decision to opt for surgical birth.....
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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