Infant vitamin use linked to asthma

Thank-you for posting this. It was an interesting read. [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]

This rant now has nothing to do with this article specifically but what would appear to be the article that appears almost every week now linking something to increased asthma, environmental allergies, or food allergies.

For God's sake, what DIDN'T we do WRONG?

When I saw the title of this article, I thought, okay, I didn't give Jesse (my PA son) multi-vitamins when he was an infant. Then, of course, it says about formula having vitamins put in it. So, of course, he got them from there.

I also remember Jesse being, I believe iron deficient at one time and he had to take an iron supplement.

I'll have to e-mail my Mother to see what was done in the dinosaur ages. Wait, maybe I can remember. My Mother was told by our family doctor to give us multi-vitamins in the months that had an R in them. So, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, and April because in the months that didn't have an R in them, May, June, July and August, we should be getting enough vitamins from the sun and be okay without a supplement.

We were also given, and I'm not clear when or for how long, cod liver oil capsules.

Can anyone understand why I've gone on a rant?

Each and every one of us, every day, is doing the absolute best that we can do by our children.

This article is important because yes, people can decide if they want to give their non-food allergic, non-asthmatic children vitamins or not based on the information in this article. They can decide if their child is receiving enough vitamins through their food sources.

I've heard for quite some time that I don't want to have asthmatic children and live in Toronto (a big city). It's *better* for me to live in a smaller town. Yet, when the pollution readings come out, where do you think the pollution drifts from Toronto? North of Toronto to where I used to live, and yes, east of Toronto, to where I live now.

So, our pollution counts are often higher in small places than they are in Toronto. So really what is better for my asthmatic children?

My PA son had vitamin enriched formula from the age of 5 months on. My non-PA daughter would have had the same from the age of 3 WEEKS on.

I do believe it's a combination of things certainly, but it's just in my genes somehow man and my child would be PA regardless. My children would both have asthma regardless. They would both have environmental allergies regardless.

Can we control these things? Of course, to some degree.

Again, this is not to negate what was posted.
This rant could just as easily go in the thread about the article that appears next week or the one that appeared last week.

When I had both of my children, almost nine and seven years ago, different hospitals, I felt as though you were *forced* to breastfeed. That if you chose to do anything other than that, you weren't okay. Well, with Jess, had never done it before, obviously, so I did try it and I continued for five months. Now, I didn't eat pb and peanut products during the five months, so I'm not responsible for his PA through breastfeeding, but do you know I actually don't think I helped his immune system? Rather, I think he was a colicky baby that didn't like what he was being fed, through me, until he changed to formula.

Em, I never had the same problems with because I switched from breastfeeding to formula when she was three weeks old.

I think it's important that we know (and still a lot of things directed towards people having babies or with babies aren't doing it) not to feed our children peanuts/nuts until the age of 3 or even 5. I think it's important to avoid peanuts while pregnant and breastfeeding (although I do provide a *good* argument as to why it doesn't even matter - my son is PA regardless).

My children have asthma. If them having vitamin enriched formula *contributed* to them having asthma, so be it. I believe they would have been asthmatic regardless.

And again, this whole rant is not directed at this one particular article. It was a good read IMHO.

I guess, for me also, I'm not looking for answers anymore as to why my children have certain things. I look to dealing with them and helping to lessen them, but as far as the *definitive* answer as to why my children have what they have, it's information overload for me and I can't deal with the sheer stress of it.

(Or could one not tell from reading my post [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/rolleyes.gif[/img] )

Best wishes! [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]

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Well, I've been giving my two year old a multivitamin because I thought it would be good for his little immune system.

Sigh...

Jen