Eating salmon during pregnancy can lead to children with greater immunity to asthma, says a new study.
Researchers led by Philip Calder of the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom carried out the salmon in pregnancy study, a randomized controlled trial in which a group of women salmon ate twice a week from week 19 pregnancy.
Allergy tests below were performed in children at six months and then in two to three years old.
The results were compared with a control group, whose mothers did not eat salmon during pregnancy.
The results showed that at six months there was no difference in the rate of allergy between the two groups of children.
However, two years and a half years, children whose mothers ate salmon during pregnancy were less likely to have asthma.
