Do breast-feeding and delayed introduction of solid foods protect against subsequent atopic eczema?
1981
Kramer, Michael S. | Moroz, Brenda
A case-control study of 636 dermatology patients and analysis of their feeding histories as infants indicate no protective effect of breastfeeding and delayed introduction of solid foods against subsequent atopic eczema, as has been previously claimed. Breastfeeding was associated neither with reduced risk of atopic eczema nor with lesser severity in subjects with the disease. No correlation was seen between age of onset of atopic eczema and duration of breastfeeding or age of introduction of solid foods. Even infants exclusively breastfed for 2 or more months apparently received no prophylactic benefit against development of allergy from dietary elimination of cow milk and other protein antigens. It is concluded that previous studies were biased by methodological flaws including nonblind data and confounding variables.
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