According to Dutch researchers, the risk of asthma is almost 50 percent higher in children whose moms eat nut or nut products during pregnancy.

It has also been noted that moderate amounts of nuts or nut products do not cause any effect, so, it is earlier to say whether pregnant women must give up nuts or not. Nuts contain several important nutrients and healthy fats that are essential for the development of fetus.

“It’s happening first time that some study has found these strong effects on asthma symptoms,” stated Saskia Willers who led the study.

Asthma is considered an inflammatory disease that causes coughing, wheezing and difficult breathing which can be dangerous for life. The World Health Organization’s data suggest that in some countries, the condition is found in almost 30 percent of children.

Scientists haven’t found yet; why some children develop this disease but some think that allergies can generate the disease which narrows the bronchial tubes.

There are many other nuts and seafood that have allergens which causes allergies but the Dutch team only focused on a link between peanuts and asthma, Willers further added.

In the study, a dietary questionnaire was completed by more than 4,000 pregnant women. In the questionnaire it was asked whether these women consumed vegetables, fish, eggs, fresh fruit, milk products, nuts and nut products on daily or rarely basis.

After that the researchers assessed the children’s diets and examined who had developed the disease during eight-year period. The researchers’ findings have been published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Willers told in a telephone interview that there was a far higher risk of asthma in children whose mothers consumed at least one peanut butter sandwich a day.

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