| ■ Breast milk helps lungs but not if mom has asthma | 2007.11.06 |
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Breast-feeding seems to protect children from asthma later in life, but only when the mother does not have the respiratory disorder herself, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. They found that breast-feeding for more than four months helped improve lung function in children whose mothers did not have asthma. But breast-fed children whose mothers had asthma did not benefit and actually showed a significant drop in lung function later in life. That does not mean women with asthma should stop breast-feeding. |