Asthma Maternal and Fetal Sex

Asthma Maternal and Fetal Sex

Difficult to connect between pregnant women who have asthma with the fetus gender. But researchers in Australia found that pregnant women with asthma will have more frequent asthma attacks when he gets a girl pregnant. The cause is unknown, allegedly a female fetus to produce a compound that can make asthma worse mother. Such as outlined in the American Thoracic Society conference in Florida.

Of the 118 pregnant women who have asthma, nearly 70% of male fetuses contained, free from asthma attacks during pregnancy. Containing the fetus was female, 61%, which is free of asthma up to 18 weeks of pregnancy, and only 28% are free of asthma at the age of 30 weeks. Asthma symptoms that occur at night as seen increased in pregnant women that contain a female fetus when the pregnancy was 18-30 weeks. Not so for those that contain male fetuses, are not having problems breathing problems at night.

Another study found that many pregnant women who consume fish oil, which contains lots of omega-3 fatty acids useful to prevent the baby to suffer from asthma and allergies.

Parents who suffer from asthma, a big risk to have children who suffer from asthma. And fish oil seemed to be able to interact with the transporter gene with asthma and in some way the risk of asthma in children decreases.

 Source : info-sehat.com