Daily HealthBeat Tip - November 05, 2007

Breathing and breastfeeding 2

Researcher Hawley Montgomery-Downs of West Virginia University says children who were breastfed as babies had less of a problem, but her study couldn’t tell if breastfeeding could prevent sleep-disordered breathing in some children.

``Longer breastfeeding lowered the measures of sleep-disordered breathing, the longer the children were breastfed. But importantly, we cannot say breastfeeding eliminated sleep-disordered breathing.’’ (10 seconds)

Last revised: May, 26 2008