Breastfeeding? Laugh it up and you may help improve your child's allergy

Mild atopic eczema, a skin condition, is one of the most common allergies among infants. Now researchers have determined that if a breastfeeding mother gets the giggles, she may just help control her baby's bad reactions to allergins. The researchers had mothers watch something funny or something boring on television. Later, they tested her baby after the baby had breastfed.   Among those babies whose mothers had watched something funny, the babies had fewer allergic reactions.  Seem pretty far fetched? Well, researchers explain that it probably has to do with melatonin, a hormone associated with relaxation. Apparently, people with high levels of melatonin have low levels of eczema.  Sure enough--the laughing mothers in the experiment showed higher levels of melatonin in their breastmilk after watching something funny.

Comments

[Aruni]

Very interesting! I'm going to link to this post from our blog. Hopefully it will make more new moms laugh a bit!