Mom`s Depression and Child`s Asthma
A mother’s depression can worsen her child’s asthma, U.S. researchers have found. A team of John Hopkins Children’s Center which focused on more than two hundreds of mothers which indicated that their children were found disproportionately affected by asthma.
The research revealed that children whose mothers had more depressive symptoms had more frequent asthma symptoms, while children of mothers with fewer depressive symptoms had less frequent asthma symptoms. The study was released online in advance of publication in an upcoming print issue of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology.
While the degree of a mother’s depression affected her child’s asthma symptoms, the researchers found that the reverse wasn’t true. This conclusion suggested that a mother’s depression is an independent risk factor that can predict the severity of a child’s asthma.
As quoted from yahoo news, depression often involves fatigue, memory lapses and problems with concentration, it can impair a mother’s ability to manage her child’s asthma, which may require daily drug treatments and frequent doctor visits, the study authors noted.
