Respiratory tract infections have been a common cause of distress in infants and young children for many years. Although this is still a communal threat to their health, breastfeeding could be a possible preventative measure to partake in. Breastfeeding and the risk of respiratory tract infections after infancy: The Generation R Study aimed to see if breastfeeding would reduce the chance of lower and upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) in young adolescents from infancy to four years of age. The methods used to gather their data consisted of a Dutch population-based prospective cohort study from birth up to four years old. The study used questionnaires at six different age milestones throughout children’s lives. The major results of the
