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View story Antibiotic use in first year may increase asthma risk - International Herald Tribune 2 / 0 http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/20/healthscience/19asth.... Submitted by graymatter 32 months, 3 weeks, 1 day, 12 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 Tags: asthma comment (1) | Category: lungs & respiratory system | Add graymatter as a source Comments Votes (my sources) Votes (Everyone) « go back

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