My reason for believing that this is what caused his asthma is that none of
our
kids, all bf exclusively until 6 months (and as you know, continued bf for
LONG
after that!) have asthma, or any allergies except for atopic

dermatitis which
was outgrown.

Hard to say. DH had severe asthma as a child. I had (and still have) pretty
bad eczema (atopic dermatitis.) He was not bf at all. I was only bf for a few
weeks. Shaina was bf for 14 months, and got no solids until 5 months. She has
moderate asthma. (Though it seems to be getting a lot better now! knock wood.)
I would suspect that it would have been a lot worse if I hadn't bf'd, or had
started solids early, but we still did't avoid the problem completely.


Naomi
CAPPA Certified Lactation Educator

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