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Asthma may be linked to cereal in baby food

 Babies who are fed cereal in the first few months of their lives are six times more likely to develop asthma, according to dramatic new research.

Doctors have discovered a possible link between cereal and grass pollen asthma after studying more than 16,000 patients and obtaining vital information on whether their baby food contained cereal.

The findings, published in this week's Journal Of Clinical And Experimental Allergy, revealed 84.4 per cent of asthma sufferers in Spain who had eaten cereal as babies were now sensitive to grass pollen, compared with only 15.1 per cent of those who were breastfed.

Researchers believe the early introduction of cereal-based food to an immature and sensitive stomach may cause an excessive production of anti-bodies triggered by allergens in the cereal, which could in turn lead to a reaction to grass pollen.

A team of nine researchers from hospitals in Spain says cereal was introduced into the diet of babies as young as three months in the late Fifties and Sixties. That was also the time when the number of asthma cases began to increase dramatically.

'Forty years is too short a time period for any genetic change to have occurred, therefore environ-mental factors must be responsible,' says the report.

'The early introduction of cereals in the diet of infants in recent years might explain the possible increase in sensitisation to cereal proteins and, as a result, stimulate the development of sensitisation to grass pollen,' it adds.

'This could be followed by the development of grass pollen asthma and therefore explain the increase in prevalence. The early introduction of cereal into children's diets was found to be a risk factor for grass pollen asthma.'

The report selected 1959 as a cutoff point for evaluation of the risk factor because it says it was around this date that cereal formulas were introduced into children's diets before the age of three months. It advises: 'Later introduction of cereal into the diet might be useful in the control of this serious disease.'

Asthma is a complex inflammatory disease of the airways, and for many sufferers the condition has its roots in infancy. In those at risk, it causes recurrent episodes of wheezing, breathless-ness, tightness in the chest and coughing, especially at night and in the early morning.

There are two main types of asthma, allergic and idiosyncratic, and the asthma that starts in childhood or early life tends to have a strong allergic component. The causes of asthma and the reason the number of cases has rocketed in recent years have long baffled doctors. New figures this week show one in eight children and one in 13 adults in the UK now have the disease, and that there are 1,500 deaths a year.