Study: Apples, Fish May Protect Babies from Asthma, Allergies

The children of women who ate apples and fish during their pregnancies appear to have a lower risk of developing asthma and some allergic diseases, according to a new study.

My apologies if this was already posted, my search indicated it was not.

It's allergy 'season' again, so I thought this was apropos. My mother loved apples and fish of all kinds, but this did not prevent me, her firstborn, from having a variety of allergies, some severe, starting with hayfever from a very young age. But my younger siblings seemed relatively immune, at least until adulthood.

I find it odd that when mothers took aspirin, drank coffee with breakfast, wine with dinner and smoked while pregnant, I knew not a single child who had asthma or allergies. Moms use antibacterial soap and alcohol wipe everything their children touch.
Now every child seems to have something. Even my own are allergic to Mosquito bites and get huge red welts at point of contact.

Makes me wonder if these babies are not being exposed to ENOUGH to have them build immunities of their own.

(ducking for asking....)

Moms use antibacterial soap and alcohol wipe everything their children touch.

We tell my sister this all the time. She doesn't have kids, but she's a super clean freak who has developed 2 new allergies, in her 30's. My son gets a similar reaction to bee bites and stings - not full out severe allergic reaction, but it's like a baseball under his skin. And he feels ill for days afterward. We're told it could get worse, but we just stay vigilant and keep benadryl on hand.

I'm curious too about peanut and other similar allergies. I think it's funny - parents I knew when my son was very young wiped everything with industrial strength cleaners yet thought nothing of feeding their babies peanut butter (at least 2 allergic now) and spraying pesticides liberally and in the kids presence. You know, 'protecting' them from 'germs' but ignoring the common sensical preventative advice around them.

One of my son's little friends had serious allergies and asthma, but that didn't stop his parents from smoking around him (a lot!), having cats (his cat allergies were extreme), spraying for bugs night and day, inside and out, and then shuttling him off to specialists to find out why his asthma was getting worse, and why he developed eczema. They were loving, caring people, with an odd kind of common sense.

Makes me wonder if these babies are not being exposed to ENOUGH to have them build immunities of their own. (ducking for asking....)

I'm ducking with you, I agree! (And I wouldn't mind a return to common sense - i.e. my pesticide friends - wildflowers are not weeds!)

>>One of my son’s little friends had serious allergies and asthma, but that didn’t stop his parents from smoking around him (a lot!), having cats (his cat allergies were extreme), spraying for bugs night and day, inside and out, and then shuttling him off to specialists to find out why his asthma was getting worse, and why he developed eczema. They were loving, caring people, with an odd kind of common sense.<<

YIKES!
I’m not a perfect parent by any means but smoking around kids with Asthma is dangerous. That is just common sense. My hubby smokes, in the garage and my kids have no breathing problems.

BTW, I was told that the mosquito alergy will get worse until they are about 8 or 9 then start to go away. I do the same thing. Benedryl is a life saver (and those citronella wrist bands). I love going camping and when they start to swell up, on goes the topical and in goes the oral.
They pass out and Dad and I get to sit around the campfire while they snooze!

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