Environmental Allergies, Food Allergies, and Asthma

If you are pregnant and have asthma, it is best for both you and the baby to keep your asthma under control and avoid all of your asthma triggers if possible. The following article will tell you more of the importance of controlling asthma during pregnancy.

Asthma Attacks Early In Pregnancy Put Baby At Greater Risk Of Birth Defects, New Research Suggests

Uncontrolled asthma during the first trimester of pregnancy greatly increases the risk of birth defects in babies, according to new research to be published in the June issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Canadian researchers Lucie Blais, PhD, and Amelie Forget, MSc, concluded that women who had an asthma flare-up in the first three months of pregnancy were 48 percent more likely to have a baby with at least one congenital defect than asthmatic mothers who did not have a flare-up in the first trimester.

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