News Release 4-Mar-2020

Wiley

In an Acta Paediatrica study, exclusive breastfeeding for the first 3 months was linked with a lower risk of respiratory allergies and asthma when children reached 6 years of age.

In the study of 1,177 mother-infant pairs, a third of the children were exclusively breastfed until the age of 3 months. By the age of 6 years, 20.8% of children had been diagnosed with respiratory allergies and 11.3% with asthma.

Exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months was associated with a 23% lower relative risk of respiratory allergies at the age of 6 years. It was also associated with a 34% lower relative risk of asthma, but only if the children did not have a family history of asthma.

Breastfeeding for 3 months, but not exclusively, was insufficient to reduce the risk of respiratory allergies or asthma.

“Airway disorders such as respiratory allergies and some asthma may be prevented in some cases by encouraging exclusive breastfeeding for at least 3 months, as human milk was potentially beneficial in reducing the risk of airway disorders among children,” said author Galya Bigman, PhD, of the University of Maryland, Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine.

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在儿科研究中，当儿童达到6岁时，头3个月纯母乳喂养与较低的呼吸道过敏和哮喘风险相关。

在对1,177对母婴的研究中，三分之一的孩子仅接受母乳喂养，直到3个月大。到6岁时，已诊断出20.8％的儿童患有呼吸道过敏，而11.3％的儿童被诊断出患有哮喘。

纯母乳喂养3个月可使6岁以下的婴儿出现呼吸道过敏的相对危险性降低23％。它也与哮喘的相对危险性降低34％有关，但前提是孩子没有哮喘家族史。

母乳喂养3个月（但不是全部）不足以减少呼吸道过敏或哮喘的风险。

“在某些情况下，鼓励纯母乳喂养至少3个月可以预防呼吸道疾病，例如呼吸道过敏和某些哮喘，因为人乳可能有益于降低儿童患呼吸道疾病的风险，”作者Galya Bigman博士说，马里兰大学医学院人类病毒研究所。