The list of foods pregnant women are advised to avoid just keeps on growing, with new claims that low-fat yoghurt increases an unborn child's future allergy risk. Researchers assessed dairy intake during pregnancy and found that drinking milk during pregnancy protected children against asthma.
However, women who ate low-fat yoghurt once a day were 1.6 times more likely to have children who developed asthma by age seven, compared with children of women who did not eat yoghurt. Leanne Metcalf at Asthma UK told Medical ID wearers: “There is wide evidence to suggest the pre-natal environment can influence whether a child will develop asthma or allergy symptoms.”Childhood asthma has risen threefold since the 1950s and about 1.1 million of the 5.4 million sufferers in Britain are children.