The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition publishes a study conducted by the GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health (Germany) that suggests that feeding during pregnancy can influence the risk of the baby developing allergies in the future.
To reach this conclusion, they analyzed the data of 2,641 children, of whom 17.7% were diagnosed with eczema at 2 years, 9.3% suffered from food allergies, especially milk and eggs and 4 , 8% were sensitive to inhalable allergens.
The researchers studied the relationship between the feeding of the pregnant woman in the last month of pregnancy and allergies and eczema in their children at the age of two. Some factors that found determinants were the mother's consumption of margarine and vegetable oils, but it seems that the consumption of fish in the last period of pregnancy could protect babies against eczema. The sensitivity of children to certain foods is related to the high consumption of celery and citrus and that of inhalable allergens to the consumption of large amounts of vegetable fat for frying, sweet pepper and citrus.
These supposed relationships between the foods that the mother consumed during pregnancy and the allergies of the children, are not clinically proven, so at the moment it is still a previous investigation that requires new studies before proceeding to make recommendations in the eating habits of future moms.
