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Antibiotic use in first year may increase asthma risk - International Herald Tribune
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/20/healthscience/19asth....
Submitted by graymatter 28 months, 4 weeks, 13 hours ago
The use of antibiotics in the first year of life is associated with an increased risk for asthma at age 7, a new study has found, and the reason may be that antibiotics destroy not only disease-causing microbes, but also those that are helpful to the developing immune system. Antibiotic use had a greater impact on children who would otherwise be considered at lower risk — children who lived in rural areas and those whose mothers did not have asthma — than on those who were already at increas
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#1 - By allen, 28 months, 1 week, 13 days, 23 hours ago.
thanks for the link
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