In one new study, led by an expert from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers looked at the health of 1,300 6-year-olds who were breastfed. Those who were breastfed for longer periods — nine months or more — had fewer throat, ear and sinus infections than those who were breastfed for a shorter time.
The difference was most noticeable for sinus infections, according to the researchers. Children who were breastfed a longer period had a 53-percent lower chance of having had sinus trouble within the past year.
Separately, an expert from a food-safety branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took a look at 6-year-olds’ rate of “probable food allergies.” The findings: breastfeeding for a period of four or more months chopped a child’s food-allergy risk in half.
The one caveat is high-risk families, where allergies already run rampant. Breastfeeding didn’t seem to decrease the odds of allergies passing to the next generation.
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