{"id":5839,"date":"2011-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2011-07-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T00:00:00","slug":"breastfeeding-asthma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/breastfeeding-asthma\/","title":{"rendered":"Breastfeeding Lowers Asthma Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href='http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/231657.php' target='_blank'>Asthma Risk Lower In Breastfed Babies<\/a>, Medical News Today reports on a Dutch study which found that babies who are exclusively breastfed up to the age of six months have a lower risk of developing asthma-related symptoms in early childhood. <\/p>\n<p>The study was conducted by researchers at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam in The Netherlands and was published online in the <i>European Respiratory Journal<\/i>. The researchers emphasize that their findings support current recommendations that infants in industrialized countries should only receive breast milk up to the age of six month.<\/p>\n<p>This study is part of a broader body of research called the Generation R Study, which is &#8216;following thousands of multi-ethnic urban children from before birth until early adulthood, to identify early environmental and genetic causes of normal and abnormal growth, development and health,&#8217; according to Medical News Today.<\/p>\n<p>While previous studies have linked breastfeeding and asthma risk, this study is the first to show a link between duration of breastfeeding and number of wheezing periods. <\/p>\n<p>Researchers summed up their conclusion in the following statement: &#8216;Shorter duration and non-exclusivity of breastfeeding were associated with increased risks of asthma-related symptoms in preschool children. These associations seemed at least partly explained by infectious but not by atopic mechanisms.&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Asthma Risk Lower In Breastfed Babies, Medical News Today reports on a Dutch study which found that babies who are exclusively breastfed up to the age of six months have a lower risk of developing asthma-related symptoms in early&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":[206,75,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839"}],"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=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}