Babies Born During Fall At Higher Risk Of Asthma
Results of a new study find that babies born during the fall season are more susceptible to developing asthma.
According to lead researcher of the study, Dr. Tina Hartert, director of the center for Asthma Research at Vanderbilt University, doctors have known this fact for quite sometime, and it is actually preventable.
“All infants are exposed to this and it is potentially preventable,” she said.
The researchers studied more than 95,000 babies born in Tennessee.
Babies born in the fall, were much more susceptible to developing asthma than those born at other times of the year.
“What we were able to show was the timing of birth and the risk of developing asthma moves in time almost to the day with the peak of these viral infections each winter,” Hartert said.
Babies born in the fall season, are born just months ahead of the flu season, thus their little immune systems are often unprepared for the higher viral load.