Study Links Antibiotics To Asthma

[Bill Giman]

New info on Asthma:

Study Links Antibiotics To Asthma

Exposure to antibiotics in the first year of life may increase the risk of developing asthma later in childhood, researchers report. In fact, there may even be a higher risk with each additional course of antibiotics.

today.reuters.com

[RAVALARD]

Can you copy the text of the article. I don't find it on the site of Reuter.
Thanks J. C. ravalard

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New info on Asthma:

Study Links Antibiotics To Asthma

Exposure to antibiotics in the first year of life may increase the risk of
developing asthma later in childhood, researchers report. In fact, there may
even be a higher risk with each additional course of antibiotics.

today.reuters.com
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[maly suissa]

Here you are,
First, the link:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... ived=False
Second, the article:
Early antibiotics may increase asthma risk
Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:49 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Exposure to antibiotics in the first year of life may increase the risk of developing asthma later in childhood, researchers report. In fact, there may even be a higher risk with each additional course of antibiotics.
However, the investigators say they cannot exclude the possibility of "reverse causation" -- in which the presence of asthma leads to more frequent respiratory tract infections, which in turn increases the rate of antibiotic use.
The prevalence of asthma in western countries has increased over the last three decades, Dr. Carlo A. Marra and colleagues at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver note in the medical journal Chest. In the same period there has been a greater exposure of infants to antibiotics, but epidemiological evidence linking antibiotic use with asthma risk is conflicting.
To review the available evidence, Marra's group identified seven studies that specifically examined the relationship between being given at least one prescription for an antibiotic in the first year of life and the development of physician-diagnosed asthma between the ages of 1 and 18 years.
According to the team's report, the studies included 12,082 children and 1817 asthma cases.
Overall, the pooled data showed that the likelihood of developing asthma was doubled among children with antibiotic exposure before 1 year of age.
Marra's group also combined data from five studies analyzing a potential dose-response relationship, which included 27,167 children and 3,392 asthma cases. The chances of having asthma increased 16 percent with every additional course of antibiotics given during the first year of life.
The researchers suggest that the concerns they encountered -- including reverse causation and type of antibiotics used -- will need to be overcome in further large-scale, database-related studies to definitively answer whether or not antibiotic use early in life is associated with later asthma risk.
Meanwhile, it is possible to safely reduce the number of antibiotics that infants receive, co-author Dr. Fawziah Marra notes in a press release. Although antibiotics are commonly used to treat upper respiratory tract infections and bronchitis, she notes that most of these infections are viral -- and antibiotics are ineffective.
SOURCE: Chest, March 2006.

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RAVALARD wrote:
Can you copy the text of the article. I don't find it on the site of Reuter.
Thanks J. C. ravalard

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Study Links Antibiotics To Asthma

Exposure to antibiotics in the first year of life may increase the risk of
developing asthma later in childhood, researchers report. In fact, there may
even be a higher risk with each additional course of antibiotics.

today.reuters.com

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[Shannon Nelson]

I always wonder how much of the increase in asthma is resulting from
the decrease in water drinking. Some of you will remember that my
daughter's very severe asthma was *completely* handled by simply having
her start drinking water, and for her just a few cups a day has been
sufficient. Five years now, and never looked back. I'm sure the
remedies haven't hurt, since she's had tons of other issues that water
*didn't* address, but with the asthma it was definitely water, not
remedies, that turned the tide (pun!) for her.

But it is probably significant that her revulsion for water lessened
after she had Puls; maybe that is part of why she became *willing* to
begin drinking it at that point!
Shannon
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[Tanya Marquette]

not to question your authority in your daughter's case,
but it sounds to me like a syngistic type of response with
the puls and aversion to water and the asthma. these
situations are always hard to pinpoint with absolute
assurity.

but very interesting to see the dramatic results with a
severe case of asthma. asthma was one of the few
conditions that i recall being severely cautioned about in
my early days with homeopathy.

tanya
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[Shannon Nelson]

Hi Tanya,
Actually the initial effect of the water was absolutely clear. After
the first cupful she began to improve, tho it took hours to see very
much of it, and a few days to get her back to (almost) normal. I used
some herbs, but their effect was short. I wasn't using remedies with
her, because I was for the moment out of ideas. But now you've got me
interested to see just where the Puls did come into it--I'll look back
thru my records, but I know it was only much earlier, and then maybe
some weeks or months afterwards, based on M/E picture. Mullein
tincture helped, but improvement really began after she started choking
down the water. Of the six people I've known about who've tried this,
it worked for five-and-a-half: The "half" said it worked great when he
*remembered* to drink, but he kept forgetting and didn't always have
water available. For all of the others, water has made inhalers (or in
my daughter's case, inhalers and steroids) unnecessary. If a slight
wheeze begins, it stops literally within moments after she drinks--the
connection is absolutely unmistakable.

Initially she *became* willing to drink water only because she felt so
awful, and I think was scared by the way she was feeling. What I
wonder, tho, is whether she would have *kept* drinking water, even the
smallish amounts that she now does, without the help of Puls (and
Lyssin at age 4).

Water is such a really basic need, and it is still so very recent that
we have the *option* to not drink water for thirst, so we are still
faced with learning just *how* important it is.
Cheers,
Shannon

[Tanya Marquette]

it is interesting that you used mullein. i have always used
mullein for lung conditions. i also once used valerian tea
for a child's asthma attack (prior to my being involved in
homeopathy). it worked very well.

tanya
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[Shannon Nelson]

Yes, the mullein was sort of a "second-runner" in what I'd been
reading, the first choice being lobelia, but that irritated her mouth
(allergy, I guess), so we moved to mullein only, and that worked well,
tho only for a while. Lung is what I mostly knew about it, too. I'll
try to remember about valerian!
Shannon
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[Tanya Marquette]

fyi, i used valerian for its tranquilizing effects.

tanya
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