{"id":5396,"date":"2008-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2008-04-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T00:00:00","slug":"baby-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/baby-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Breathing Problems Possibly Linked to Baby Swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/wp\/images\/baby_swim.jpg' alt='Baby swimming may increase risk of breathing problems in children whose mothers have allergies or asthma.' align='right'>Mothers who have allergies or asthma may want to think twice before enrolling their babies in swimming classes. <a href='http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/04\/080415111646.htm' target='_blank'>ScienceDaily<\/a> reports on a recent study conducted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)using data from the Norwegian Mother and Child Study (MoBa). <\/p>\n<p>Most children who are enrolled in baby swimming classes do not manifest an increase in lower respiratory tract infections, ear inflammation, or tightness and wheezing in the chest; but among babies whose mothers have allergies or asthma, a slightly higher percentage of babies who participated in swimming had chest tightness or wheezing: 47% in baby swimmers, compared to 44% of non-swimmers. <\/p>\n<p>Department Director at the NIPH&#39;s Division of Epidemiology and primary author of the study, Wenche Nystad, says, &#8216;The difference is not large but it indicates a tendency to respiratory problems.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Previous studies suggested a link between airway infections and baby swimming, possibly due to environmental factors like <a href='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/wp\/toxic-pool-chemicals\/'>volatile chlorination products<\/a> used in indoor swimming pools. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mothers who have allergies or asthma may want to think twice before enrolling their babies in swimming classes. ScienceDaily reports on a recent study conducted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)using data from the Norwegian Mother and Child&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}