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Asthma and the spine
When there is interference to the nervous
system, the organ or tissue at the end of the nerve that is interfered with, will not
function properly. This malfunction eventually leads to disease. The main cause of
interference to the nervous system is misaligned vertebrae.
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Bottle feeding before bed time
may increase risk of childhood asthma
Risk may be raised by 50 percent
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital (BWH) have found that children with a family history of asthma or allergies may
face significantly higher risk of persistent wheezing and asthma later in childhood when
bottle fed in the bed or crib before sleep time.
"For infants in a high-risk group,
we found that when and how they are fed influence the onset of wheezing and asthma,"
said Juan Celedon, M.D., DrPH, of BWH. "There is a significant relationship between
the number of times children are bottle fed in the crib or bed prior to sleep time and the
occurrence of wheezing during their first five years."
Nearly one in thirteen children in
America has asthma. The National Institutes of Health reports that the prevalence of
asthma around the world has doubled in the last 15 years, increasing 160 percent among
pre-school age children. Asthma is the third leading-cause of hospitalization among
children under age 15 and accounts for more than 10 million missed school days annually.
Researchers found that bottle feeding in
the bed or crib before sleep time during the first year of life was a risk factor for
asthma and recurrent wheezing at five years of age. It also appeared to be a risk factor
for wheezing between the ages of one to five years.
Children whose parents reported bottle
feeding in the bed or crib before sleep time on three occasions in the first year of life
had a 50 percent higher risk of wheezing by age five compared to children who were not
bottle fed before sleep time in the bed or crib
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