Wow, another argument to limit TV times for our kids. Prolonged TV times has been linked to childhood obesity, poor performance at school, sleep problems, and increased blood pressure. Now it’s also been linked to asthma and wheezing! A British study looked at more than 3000 children from birth up to their 11th birthday. Respiratory [...]
Tags: asthma, sedentary behavior, televison, TV, wheezing
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While many studies have shown that breastfeeding reduces the chances of children developing asthma, a new study led by a University of Alberta professor has found that eating fast food more than once or twice a week negated the benefits of breastfeeding.
Several different findings led researchers to make links between fast food and asthma, breastfeeding [...]
Tags: antibiotics, asthma, breast feeding, fast food
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It’s a known fact – smoking, first or second hand – is bad for our health. It has been shown to have adverse effects such wheezing and allergies among young children.
This latest study, however, showed that second hand smoking, passive smoking, environmental smoke, whatever you call it, can cause behavioral problems in children, especially boys [...]
Tags: asthma, boys, secondhand smoke
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Are you shopping for winter clothes for your baby? And has your child ever had a rash you couldn’t work out was the cause of? Read this before you hit the shops.
In recent months, several parents of children with mysterious rashes on their necks and shoulders have been blogging about what they suspect is allergic [...]
Tags: asthma, baby clothes, carters, chemicals, exzema, phthalates, rashes, winter clothes
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And before you scream at me, I think that’s a scummy title for a news report too.
ABC News reports that Harvard doctors seem to have found an increased risk of allergies and asthma in babies born to moms who were stressed during their pregnancies, and the effect was exacerbated by having dust mites in the [...]
Tags: Allergies, asthma, stress
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