Moms' Stress Tied To Kids' Asthma Risk

Long-Term Maternal Stress May Pose Asthma Risk For Children, Study Shows

(WebMD)  Children's odds of developing asthma may be higher if their mothers are under long-term stress , a Canadian study shows.

The study included nearly 14,000 children born in 1995 in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Nearly 7 percent of the kids had been diagnosed with asthma by age 7.

The researchers focused on maternal distress, based on doctor visits, hospitalizations, and prescriptions for depression or anxiety any time from the child's birth until age 7. Pregnancy stress wasn't included.

Children of mothers with long-term stress (not just postpartum stress) were 25 percent more likely than other kids to develop asthma, regardless of other asthma risk factors, such as gender, urban or rural location, and neighborhood income.

Those risks were even steeper for children of stressed, high-income moms and for kids with at least one sibling.

The researchers aren't blaming stressed moms for children's asthma. And it's not clear how moms' stress affects kids' odds of developing asthma.

But the researchers conclude that "maternal distress in early life plays a role in the development of childhood asthma, especially if it continues beyond the postpartum period."

The University of Manitoba's Anita Kozyrskyj, PhD, and colleagues report their findings in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

[barbjc1]

O.K., children have a much higher rate of asthma now because they do not go outside to play. Part of that is because Moms have to work long hours just to keep their jobs and another BIG factor is all of the sexual deviates running around in the neighborhoods now.
I am a firm believer that our children''s health has deteriated for two major reasons.
1. Too many vaccinations put in small bodies. Why would we in this country need a hepatitis vaccine? Or a chickenpox vaccine. I can understand polio, dpt,(pertussis, diptheria and tetanus), and measles, measles, mumps. All of the last ones mentioned were what my four children had as youngsters and there were no problems. This is the most advanced country in the world, stop poisoning our children.
2. Imported food, and it doesn''t tell us where it came from being fed to our children. Our dairy products are so over pasteurized all of the nutrition is taken out of it because a lot of it is imported. So the regulations say boil it to death to kill the potential germs, then readd the nutrients artifically.
A national magazine in the most recent issue, stated wash all produce and fruits in either vingar or water because we don''t know if it was grown somewhere they still use outlawed pesticides.

[duenorth3]

Why is it, I can''t send this information on to my daughter who has a child with Asthma. When I hit e-mail it keeps saying you can''t process this at this time. However I''ve been getting this since 4 o''clock this afternoon.