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• It appears that breast-feeding lowers the risk of developing celiac disease, a common gastrointestinal problem caused by intolerance to a grain protein called gluten, according to a report in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
• As lead investigator Dr. Tony Akobeng told Reuters Health, "breast-feeding at the time of solid food introduction significantly reduces the risk of celiac disease."
• Moreover, "the longer a baby is breast-fed, the more likely (the child) will not develop symptoms of celiac disease."
• Akobeng of Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals in the UK and colleagues came to this conclusion after a review of six studies, involving more than 1,100 individuals with celiac disease and almost 3500 comparison subjects.
• With the exception of one small study involving just 8 cases and 73 controls, all of the others found an association between increasing duration of breast-feeding and a decreased risk of celiac disease.
• Compared with infants who were not breast-fed at the time of gluten introduction, breast-fed infants were 52-percent less likely to develop celiac disease.
• It is not known how this protection is achieved, according to the investigators.
• It may simply be that breast-feeding during weaning leads to less gluten exposure.
• Breast-feeding could also reduce intestinal infection that might reduce the risk of celiac disease in susceptible infants.
• The researchers also note that it is not clear whether breast-feeding "delays the onset of symptoms or provides a permanent protection against the disease."

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