Thursday, November 15th, 2012 Babies who eat fish between
turning six months old and their first birthdays may have a
lower risk of developing asthma later in life than babies who
eat fish earlier than six months of age, or after age 1,
according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics.
Reuters has more: “A window of exposure between the age of 6 and
12 months might exist in which fish might be associated with a
reduced risk of asthma.” Concern over seafood allergies prompts
some parents and doctors to delay introducing fish into babies’
diets. However, some research has found that a mother’s fish
consumption during pregnancy, or the baby’s consumption of it
early on, may lower the risk of asthma. Using health and diet
information from a group of 7,210 children born between 2002 and
2006 in Rotterdam, the researchers found that 1,281 children ate
fish in their first six months of life, 5,498 first ate fish in
the next six months, and 431 did not eat fish until after age
one. The researchers then lo