Had to add my .01 here, too to Judy Fram's question about low breastfeeding
rates where cockroach infestations are high.

1) Yes, low breastfeeding rates may be a partial answer.  Think about this.
If the infestation that is most relevant is where food is stored/eaten (so
they said on the radio discussions of this that I heard), would not the
mother have been exposed (in kitchen while preparing and eating food and in
bedroom if food was eaten there, too) and IF breastfeeding after pregnancy,
would they not have provided antibodies to the particiular elements that
cockroaches and their skeletons harbor which have been implicated in
asthma?

Has anyone contacted the authors of this study to ask this question: did
you control for HOW the baby was fed, in view of the known absence of
antibodies to common elements in the baby's environment?

This question NEEDS to be asked.  Who knows the authors and their
institutional affiliation?

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