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Just Say No to Nuts During Pregnancy
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 They found no association between maternal consumption of vegetables, fish, eggs, milk or milk products and the development of asthma, according to the study. The researchers also found no association between rare or regular consumption of nuts and the development of asthma symptoms.
However, daily consumption of nut products increased the odds that a child would have wheezing by 42 percent, shortness of breath by 58 percent and steroid use to ease asthma symptoms by 62 percent, compared to children born to mothers who rarely consumed nuts. Overall, the odds of developing asthma symptoms for a child whose mother ate nuts daily were 47 percent higher, according to the study.
But, Willers said, it's too soon to recommend a complete nut ban during pregnancy. "The associations we found are pretty strong, only we are the first to find these effects, so they need to be confirmed by other studies before recommending the avoidance of peanuts and nuts during pregnancy," she said.
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Appleyard agreed. "This subject definitely needs further investigation. And, if you can pass on the antibodies that cause nut allergy from mother to fetus, why not other allergies as well?" she asked.
However, she did suggest that women with a strong family history of food allergy may want to limit the amount of nut products they consume during pregnancy.
More information
To learn more about peanut allergy, visit the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network.
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Last updated 7/15/2008
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SOURCES: Saskia Willers, M.Sc., doctoral candidate, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; Jennifer Appleyard, M.D., chief, allergy and immunology, St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit; July 15, 2008, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
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