Study from Sweden posted on Medscape. (If this link requires you to sign up, it is free, and you can "unsign" after reading it.)

Eczema in Infancy and Later Onset of Asthma and Rhinitis CME/CE 
Medscape Education Clinical Briefs 2012

http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/770212?src=cmemp

Just one of the interesting facts:

*Other independent factors increasing the odds for later asthma in children with early eczema were a parental history of allergic disease (aOR, 1.83) and a period of breast-feeding of shorter than 6 months (aOR, 1.57).


K. Jean Cotterman RNC-E, IBCLC
WIC Volunteer LC        Dayton OH

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