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Article: Pregnancy nutrition may be a source of allergic diseases in infants.
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- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- March 13, 2003
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2003 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nutrition during pregnancy may be a source of allergic diseases in infants.
"The prevalence of allergic diseases is high in Japan, even in infants. Their risk for developing allergies is influenced by the antigens in the mother's diet during pregnancy. We hypothesized that, apart from the antigens, hypersensitivity induced through high energy and nutrient intake by mothers during pregnancy may be a factor for allergic diseases in their babies," researchers in Japan reported.
"In this study, we tried to confirm our hypothesis. Allergy histories of parents and their infants, body characteristics and food and ...