Smoking during pregnancy, daycare attendance and breastfeeding are some of the main factors people can change to affect whether their infants develop wheezing. Wheezing refers to a high-pitched ...

You might wonder how your baby breathes while still in your womb, surrounded by amniotic fluid. After all, the lungs are not filled with air before birth, and your baby relies entirely on the placenta ...

The term wheezing may mean different things to different people. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the verb wheeze as "to breathe with difficulty usually with a whistling sound." Physicians often ...

A natural compound found in breast milk, known as transforming growth factor TGF ß-1, protects infants from developing wheezing. This helps explain the well-known anti-wheezing effect of breastfeeding ...

Wheezing in early life encompasses a spectrum of transient and persistent respiratory phenotypes characterised by audible airway obstruction. Infants may present with occasional wheeze during viral ...

February 26, 2007 (San Diego) — Infants who wheeze when they are infected with rhinovirus are more likely to have a diagnosis of asthma by the time they are 6 years old, according to investigators who ...

New findings from the Barwon Infant Study show the pattern of gene activity in babies' noses is strongly linked to their risk of subsequent wheezing illnesses. The research published in the Journal of ...

Newborns often have irregular breathing patterns that concern new parents. They can breathe fast, take long pauses between breaths, and make unusual noises. Newborns’ breathing looks and sounds ...

Baby-focused tech company Nanit released a new line of infant clothing called Breathing Wear that, when combined with its smart camera and app, lets new parents keep tabs on their child’s sleep and ...