母乳对儿童哮喘的作用

母乳因为有着众多的优点,而成为婴儿期营养的最佳饮食,且一直被认为对儿童哮喘具有预防的作用。然而,随着近年的一些研究发现,此作用有待商榷。一些研究认为,母乳可能减少感染和特应性变态反应,因此而降低儿童哮喘的发生率;另一些研究认为,母乳对儿童哮喘发生无显著影响,甚至可能增加晚期哮喘的发生率;还有一些研究认为,母亲患有哮喘,其母乳可能增加儿童哮喘的患病率等。但对众多文献进行分析后,仍鼓励至少4～6个月纯母乳喂养。本文就以上进行研究相关论述。

The Effect of Breast Milk on Childhood Asthma

Breast milk has become the best nutritional drink and food of children in infancy because of its lots of advantages, which is always considered to have preventive effect on childhood asthma. But based on studies of recent years,some studies showed that breast milk maybe reduce infection and atopic allergy,so it can decrease the incidence of childhood asthema; the others showed that breast milk maybe have no effect on childhood asthema, even more, it may increase the incidence of athema in advanced stage, further more, there are still some other studies showed that breast milk maybe increase the incidence of childhood asthema and so on. But breastfeeding about 4 - 6 monthes is encouraged after analysis of many data about this aspect. This article reviews some views related to the study about this aspect.