A recent study was published on June 1, indicating that breastfeeding could lessen the risk of a child to experience leukemia. It may not be a cure, but it's definitely a huge help when it comes to the prevention of the deadly disease. This stould could be viewed via JAMA pediatrics, which is an online journal specifically created for all medical related subjects.
CBS said that some researchers discovered that breastfeeding for six months have lowered the tendency of a child getting leukemia by 19%, as compared to those who have not been breast fed completely or those who only had it for a short time. The study's head author Efret Amitay from the University of Haifa in Israel, said that this activity between mother and child is a less expensive way to prevent children not just from leukemia but also from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, type 2 diabetes, ear infection and obesity just to name a few of the health cases that they could acquire as they grow up.
Pediatric leukemia is the most popular case of childhood cancer according to Trinity News Daily, and breastfeeding might just help in lowering the number of kids being affected by it. Meanwhile, scientists who are not part of the research warned the public about the study not exactly having enough proof that breastfeeding is capable of preventing children from cancer. They reasoned that the authors who conducted it have limited access to evidences and proofs that they only have information from mothers with cancer and have their answers from other parents who didn't have their child sick with leukemia.
Science Recorder also said there was no exact explanation from the research about how breastfeeding or the milk from the mother could possibly result to lower the risk of leukemia. This is why they have concluded that there may be no guarantee from the said study, but there could also be an answer from all of these that is still out there to be discovered further.
