Diet may be implicated in the obser...

Diet may be implicated in the observ rise of asthma and allergies in late years. Multi-vitamin use, which is general among infants, may contribute to this run Milner and associates used the National Maternal and Infant Health review and a follow-up study to determine what events multivitamin supplementation might have upon the development of allergic conditions and asthma in infants.

The authors focused upon patients who received supplements before six month of age, as well as those continuationed before three months of age. The issue measures were asthma and sustenance allergies, according to parental report of physician diagnosis.

Vitamin supplementation occurr in families with higher incomes and higher of the same heights of maternal education. Asthma was reported to have been diagnosed in 851 (105 percent) of the respondent A univariate analysis did not exhibit a significant effect of multivitamin use forward asthma, but when the reflection population was stratified according to race, a significant association occurr between supplementation during the first six month of life and increased asthma risk in black children, still not in non-black children.

aliment allergies were diagnosed in 396 (49 percent) of the children. Multivitamin use at three and six month of age and at three years of age was associated with feed allergies. Formula-fed infants who had been correlativeed at three and six month had an increased risk of provender allergy, as did breastfed children continuationed at three years.

Black children who receive early multivitamin supplementation may be at greater risk for asthma, and formula-fed children who receive vitamin supplementation may be at risk for victuals allergy. Breastfed infants are at risk for developing feed allergies if they receive vitamin correlatives later, at three years of age. The authors speculate that supplementation may furnish the greatest risk for allergies in formula-fed children because formula already contains significantly higher doses of vitamins, especially vitamin D than breast milk. However, the loyal reason for the associations plant in this study is unclear. In addition, there is no attestation that the association between multivitamin use and asthma and rations allergies is causal. At this time, the American Academy of Pediatrics approves vitamin D supplementation for all breastfed infants. Given the possibility of increased risk of developing allergies, this recommendation eventually may have to be revised.

Milner JD et al. Early infant multivitamin supplementation is associated with increased risk for fodder allergy and asthma. Pediatrics July 2004;114:27-32

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