According to an Australian study babies of first-time mothers with mental health disorders are almost five times as likely to be admitted to hospital with reflux.
An Australian mother’s anxiety disorder was discovered to be the strongest predictor of whether or not her baby would be admitted to hospital with gastro-oesophageal reflux in the first year after birth researchers at Western Sydney University reported.
The researchers stressed that the findings do not suggest reflux was the fault of anxious mothers and also found that the condition was being over diagnosed and over treated.