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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• asthma
• children
• vitamin e
• pregnancy
• wheezing