Childhood breathing disorder prevented by breastfeeding
Source: SLEEP 2007, the 21st annual meeting of the Associated
Professional Sleep Societies; Minneapolis, USA: 9-14 June 2007
Studying whether breast or formula feeding best protects against
childhood sleep-disordered breathing. 
MedWire News: Breastfeeding could prevent childhood sleep-disordered
breathing, a study shows, possibly by protecting against early viral
infections that cause upper airway inflammation.
Sleep-disordered breathing negatively affects cognitive development,
behaviour and quality of life, say the US researchers.
The team asked the parents of children undergoing overnight
polysomnography to fill out a brief survey as to whether their child had
been fed breast milk, formula or both as an infant.
The children were a mean age of 6.7 years at the time of polysomnography
and 52 percent were formula fed, 10 percent were breast fed, and 38 were
fed both. The mean age of weaning was 7.4 months. 
The 197 surveys revealed that children who had been breast fed for at
least 2 months had a lower apnea-hypopnea index, lower snore arousal
index, and lower respiratory arousal index than others, and also had a
higher nadir for estimated arterial oxygen saturation.
Lead researcher Hawley Montgomery Browns suggested: ""The benefits of
breast feeding in our study may be due to the protection against early
viral infection that breast feeding provides, or they may be due to the
healthful jaw formation that is a result of breast feeding."
Posted: 14 June 2007
C 2007 Current Medicine Group Ltd, a part of Springer Science
 
Esther Grunis, IBCLC
Lis Maternity Hospital
Tel Aviv, Israel
 

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