A new study has revealed that a pregnant woman's exposure to bisphenol A or BPA, a chemical commonly used in food packaging, water bottles, and a variety of consumer goods, elevates asthma risk in the child.

Some past studies have shown that BPA may lead to health disorders such as reproductive disorders, obesity, abnormal brain development as well as breast, and prostate cancers.

To develop more on this issue, some researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch, used a mouse model and carried out a lab experiment.

"We gave BPA in drinking water starting a week before pregnancy, at levels calculated to produce a body concentration that was the same as that in a human mother, and continued on through the pregnancy and lactation periods", said Terumi Midoro-Horiuti, the author of the study.

The baby mice were then exposed to a respiratory trigger after 4 days of birth, sensitized with an allergy-provoking ovalbumin injection, followed by the daily respiratory doses of ovalbumin.

After this, the researchers measured the levels of antibodies against ovalbumin, as well as quantities of inflammatory white blood cells known as eosinophils, in the lungs of the baby mice.

The mice witnessed respiratory disorders.

The researchers found high levels of inflammatory content in the body of the mice, led to asthma, and allergy in the offsprings.