News: Mom’s Heartburn Meds Increase Baby’s Asthma Risk
Do you know a mother who takes acid-blockers for heartburn during pregnancy put her baby to risk? she has increased the risk of her baby developing asthma by 50 percent. My goodness!
According to an analysis of Swedish healthcare registries done by Elizabeth Yen, MD, of the Department of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, she found that taking acid-blockers to counter heartburn associated with pregnancy upped the odds of the baby developing asthma regardless of the type of drug taken.
Currently, the effect was only seen for asthma. There was no increased risk for other allergic diseases such as food allergies or atopic dermatitis.
Dr Yen said:
“This effect was preserved irrespective of the type of acid-blocking drug, time of exposure during pregnancy, and maternal history of allergy. This provides the first evidence of a novel potential risk factor for the development of allergic diseases in children.”
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