The Relationship Between Maternal Vitamin E and Progress of Children Asthma: A Review Article

• Main Authors: Zeinab Nazari, Javad Ghaffari, Abbas Dabaghzadeh, Negar Ghaffari
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services 2020-05-01
• Series: Research in Molecular Medicine
• Subjects: asthma; children; vitamin e; pregnancy; wheezing
• Online Access: http://rmm.mazums.ac.ir/article-1-360-en.html

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory respiratory disease. Nutritional conditions effects on allergic diseases such as asthma. The aim of this study is to find relation of maternal vitamin E and progression of children asthma. This is a review article searched in data base include Google, PubMed, SID, Irandoc, Scopus and up-to-date. Key words for search include maternal vitamin e, asthma, children and pediatric. There was not limitation time for search. A few articles found in our search. Some of them were cohort studies. A few researches were about vitamin e only and a few of them evaluated vitamin e with other vitamins in clinical trial studies. Because the articles were heterogenic, we could not do a meta-analysis. Often articles showed the vitamin e improved clinical manifestations of asthma and or lung function in spirometry tests. A few articles revealed no any effect of prenatal vitamin e during pregnancy on children wheezing or asthma. Vitamin e has not any serious side effects. Vitamin e supplement during pregnancy has different effects on  wheezing or asthma prevalence in children.