Antibiotics Overload Trigger Asthma Risk on the Baby

Giving antibiotics to babies before they reach the age of six months was able to invite risk. A U.S. study says that babies who received antibiotics 70 percent higher risk of asthma in childhood.

Researchers at Yale University indicated that babies face an increased risk of asthma by 40 percent when antibiotics have been prescribed for treatment once in the early months of his birth. The risk will rise to 70 percent when they received a second prescription to treat infections that are difficult to cure.

 

Study of these scientists is a series of recent discoveries in medicine related to asthma in children. Experts divided opinion on the impact of this antibiotic. There are doubts whether an antibiotic is a cause, or whether infants were included in the study already has the talent asthma.

However, in a recent report that will be published the American Journal of Epidemiology, the scientists concluded that the relationship is indeed strong. Even after accounting for other factors such as history of asthma in the family.

In his research, scientists at Yale University to monitor the 1400 children to see if the prescribing antibiotics at an early age lead to higher cases of asthma at age six.

Children who were included were those who were prescribed antibiotics before the age of six months for the problem of infection outside of the chest infection which is identical to the symptoms of asthma. Participants also include children born to parents with no history of asthma.

The results, showing increased risk of developing asthma in children who were given antibiotics before age six months, although the child had no history of asthma.

"Using antibiotics, especially in a wide spectrum, can alter the microbial flora in the intestines of children. If it creates an imbalance in the immune system and cause bad allergic response, "explains Dr. Karl Risnes, leader of the study.

Risnes expect the results of this research into a special motivation for clinicians to avoid unnecessary antibiotic use, especially in low-risk children.