Pregnant women tend to experience food cravings especially during the first trimester of their pregnancy. But women should be very conscious of the food that they take.
A recent study shows that pregnant women who regularly take nuts may result to higher risk of having a child with asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine published an article about the said study. Researchers found out that "consistent positive associations between maternal nut product consumption, such as peanut butter, during pregnancy and wheeze, dyspnea (shortness of breath), steroid use, doctor-diagnosed asthma and persistent wheeze in children from 1 to 8 years of age," said study author Saskia Willers, a doctoral candidate at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
After conducting the study, researchers found out that "the odds of developing asthma symptoms for a child whose mother ate nuts daily were 47 percent higher, according to the study."
Though doctors haven't declared a total "nut-ban" yet but its always better to take more precaution to avoid the development of this disease to your babies.
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