Fish Help

Recent studies show that eating fish during pregnancy may lower eczema risk in children. The study also found interestingly enough, that this had little to do with the omega-3 (thought of so highly these days) content of the fish eaten. It's something else in the seafood. But check this out: 

Babies in a newly published study whose diets included fish before the age of 9 months were 24% less likely to develop eczema by their first birthdays than babies who did not eat fish.

The infants were enrolled in an ongoing health study in Sweden that is following almost 17,000 children from birth though childhood.

Having a mother or sibling with eczema was the strongest risk factor for developing the allergic skin condition during the first year of life.

But the impact of early fish consumption on risk was significant, lead author Bernt Alm, MD, PhD, of Sweden's Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, tells WebMD.

 

Sounds pretty reasonable to me. Fish has always been purported as a wonderfully nutritious, healthy food (as long as it's coming from clean sources) and there's no reason why a mother should be avoiding it during, and post-pregnancy. 

TC