Prenatal vit D fails to prevent childhood asthma
Extra supplementation also had no effect on eczema or rhinitis in children, study shows
Updated results on a study of vitamin D and childhood asthma has found extra supplements in pregnancy fails to reduce the risk of asthma or wheezing in children.
By age six, 43.5% of the children, whose mothers had received the extra vitamin D, had asthma or recurrent wheezing, compared with 45.9% in the control group.
