Mothers who breastfeed their babies for three months cut the risk of them suffering from eczema by 54% when they are in their teens, reveals study

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Breastfed babies are largely protected against developing eczema as teenagers, research suggests.

Babies whose mothers breastfeed exclusively for at least three months have a 54 per cent lower risk of eczema at the age of 16, the study found.

The researchers, from King’s College London, the University of Bristol and Harvard University, tracked 13,000 babies born in 1996 and 1997 until they were 16.

Eczema causes the skin to become itchy, dry, cracked, sore and red.

It affects around one in five children and one in ten adults.

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