I found this great humor health article about how humor can help babies with rashes. Turns out that when a mother’s are exposed…to humorous material, their breast milk changes to help babies combat skin illnesses. Interesting, eh?
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Laughter could be the best medicine for the mothers of babies with skin allergies, scientists say.
Babies with atopic eczema – the form of the illness linked to allergies – have been shown to suffer less serious allergic reactions if their mothers watched a funny film before breast-feeding.
Japanese researchers, whose work is reported in this week’s New Scientist magazine, found the breast milk of mothers who had been shown the Charlie Chaplin film, Modern Times, contained elevated levels of melatonin – a hormone linked to sleep and relaxation.
Babies who were given milk with higher melatonin levels reacted less to exposure to dust mites and latex, the researchers found.
Hajime Kimata, of the Moriguchi-Keijinkai Hospital in Osaka, Japan, studied 48 babies aged between four and six months old with atopic eczema. Half of their mothers also had atopic eczema and half did not.
Six hours after seeing the funny film, mothers with eczema had on average 80 per cent more melatonin in their milk than those who saw a weather film. Milk from mothers without eczema who watched the funny film had 30 per cent more melatonin.
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