Antibiotics Can Trigger Asthma Risk in Infants

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Prescription drugs that kill bacteria or antibiotics in infants when used in infants before the age of six months turned out to invite risk. In a U.S. study says that babies who received antibiotics had 70 percent higher risk of suffering from asthma in childhood.

Researchers at Yale University indicates that babies who face an increased risk of asthma by 40 percent if all have been prescribed antibiotics for treatment in the early months of his birth, the risk would increase to 70 percent if they have been prescribed both to treat infections that are difficult to cure.

Study scientists are some recent discoveries in science-related drugs on asthma in children. Some experts doubt whether indeed there is an antibiotic that causes this disease or a baby involved in this study does have the talent to have asthma.

However in a recent report that will be published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, scientists have concluded that the relationship is indeed strong. In research conducted by scientists at Yale University have monitored 1400 children to see whether the prescription of antibiotics at an early age can lead to cases of asthma was higher in the age of six years.

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 included children who were born from parents with no history of asthma.

From the results of that research has shown an increased risk of developing in children who were given antibiotics before the age of six months even though their child had no history of asthma.