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Breastfeeding can also Pass on Allergies, Australian Study

by Gopalan on October 02, 2007 at 12:36 PM Women Health News

Contrary to all that pep talk about virtues of breastfeeding, here comes a reality check.

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While exclusive breastfeeding of babies – whose mothers have an allergy – protects them in early childhood, it actually increases the risk of them developing allergies as adolescents and adults, according to a study done by the Melbourne University’s School of Population Health.

Breastfeeding offers no protection from allergies among children without a family history of allergies, says the study.

Babies who were exclusively breastfed in the first three months had a reduced risk of developing asthma or food allergies by the age of seven.

However, this risk reversed as they got older and by the time they had reached 14, 32 and 44 years of age, they were at increased risk of having asthma, food allergies or hayfever.

Using data from more than 8500 people from the 36 year follow-up of the Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study the research is the first in the world to follow subjects from childhood into middle age.

The project is a collaboration between the University of Melbourne, Monash University and the Menzies Research Institute in Tasmania.

“The effect of breastfeeding on the risk of contracting allergic diseases has been controversial in recent years, and while there have been many studies few have followed the subjects into adulthood and none into middle age,’’ Dr Matheson, lead author, said in the US-based Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

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