07 Jul 2017 --- Children born to mothers who consumed large amounts of sugar during pregnancy may have an increased risk of allergy and allergic asthma, according to an early study from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) involving almost 9,000 mother-child pairs. The researchers have put forward that the associations may be explained by a high maternal intake of fructose causing a persistent postnatal allergic immune response leading to allergic inflammation in the developing lung.
