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Fish reduces childhood eczema risk, study states
25 Sep 2008
Adding fish to the diet of a child before they reach nine months of age could reduce the chances of them developing eczema, it has been suggested.
Scientists from Sweden recorded the health of youngsters in 4,921 families by sending them questionnaires six months after the birth of their child and once again when the toddler was 12 months old.
Medical birth register data was also obtained for the babies.
It was found that at the age of six months, 14 per cent of the subjects had has eczema or were suffering from it at the time. By the time they reached one year old, this figure stood at 21 per cent.
The average age at which a child developed eczema was four months.
It was found the introduction of fish to a diet before the age on nine months reduced eczema risk by 25 per cent.
Writing in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, the researchers said: "The fact that fish is rich in omega-3 fatty acids could partly explain the effects found in this cohort."
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