Does infant feeding affect asthma risk?
• Breastfeeding may lower asthma risk during early childhood, but does not provide long-term asthma protection. (III-2) • If breastfeeding is not possible, infant feeding with hydrolysed milk formulae may slightly lower the risk of childhood allergy, wheezing and asthma, compared with use of other formulae. (I) • Infant feeding with soy formulae does not prevent asthma. (I) • Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation in at-risk infants does not appear to reduce the risk of childhood asthma or wheezing. (II) • Probiotic supplementation of mothers during late pregnancy and lactation, or of non-breastfed infants, does not appear to prevent asthma.
