Laughter improves breast milk's health effect
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* 16 June 2007
* From New Scientist Print Edition
FAMED for its restorative powers, it now seems that laughter also
helps breast milk to fight skin allergies.
Breastfed babies with eczema experienced milder symptoms if their
mothers laughed hours before feeding them, according to a study
by Hajime Kimata at the Moriguchi-Keijinkai Hospital in Osaka, Japan.
He showed breastfeeding mothers either a feature length Charlie
Chaplin movie or bland footage of weather information, and took
samples of breast milk at regular intervals afterwards. Two milk
feeds later, he also measured their babies' allergic reactions to
dust mites and latex. Those infants whose mothers had laughed had
markedly reduced reactions (Journal of Psychosomatic Research,
vol 62, p 699). All participating babies and some of the mothers
suffered from mild atopic eczema - the most common type.
Kimata also found significantly higher levels of melatonin in the
laughing mothers' milk. The hormone is associated with
relaxation, and levels are reduced in people with eczema.
"It would be good to investigate if 15 minutes of laughter a day
can reduce allergies in mothers and infants in the long term,"
says Michael Miller of the University of Maryland Medical Center
in Baltimore, who studies the effect of laughter on heart disease.
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From issue 2608 of New Scientist magazine, 16 June 2007, page 23
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