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Antibiotics and asthma

richard

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Antibiotics and asthma
Posted: 14 Jun 07 5:23 PM

Hardly suprising, research into the effects of antibiotics on small babies has shown that there is a definite link between antibiotics and the development of asthma, though the presence of a household dog substantially lowered that risk.

Published in American journal Chest, the study will provoke further the debate on immunisation and antibiotic jabs given to young children.

The study, carried out by Dr Kozyrskyj and colleagues from the University of Manitoba and McGill University in Montreal, studied over 13,000 children from birth to the age of seven to discover the effects of administering antibiotics at a young age.

Following years of research, the results revealed that asthma in seven-year-olds was nearly twice as likely in children who were given an antibiotic for a non-respiratory tract infection than in children who had been given no antibiotics at all.

However, the team also found that infants exposed to the hairs of a family dog before their first birthday were less likely to suffer from asthma later in life, though further research was needed to fully understand why.

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