The Relationship Between Maternal Vitamin E and Progress of Children Asthma: A Review Article

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory respiratory disease. Nutritional conditions effects on allergic diseases such as asthma. The aim of this study is to find relation of maternal vitamin E and progression of children asthma. This is a review article searched in data base include Google, PubMed, SID, Irandoc, Scopus and uptodate. Key words for search include maternal vitamin e, asthma, children and pediatric. There was not limitation time for search. A few articles found in our search. Some of them were cohort studies. A few researches were about vitamin e only and a few of them evaluated vitamin e with other vitamins in clinical trial studies. Because the articles were heterogenic, we could not do a metaanalysis. Often articles showed the vitamin e improved clinical manifestations of asthma and or lung function in spirometry tests. A few articles revealed no any effect of prenatal vitamin e during pregnancy on children wheezing or asthma. Vitamin e has not any serious side effects. Vitamin e supplement during pregnancy has different effects on wheezing or asthma prevalence in children.