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The dramatic rise in early childhood allergic diseases indicates the specific vulnerability of the immune system to early life environmental changes.
Food allergy can have significant effects on morbidity and quality of life and can be costly in terms of medical visits and treatments.
Food allergy is mediated by a combination of genetic and environmental risk factors, potentially mediated by epigenetic mechanisms.
This study aimed to identify maternal and family factors that may predict increases or decreases in child eating disorder symptoms over time, accounting for...
These data highlight that antigen administration to the neonate through the oral route may contribute to child allergic sensitization and have important...
Our global health crisis and the pandemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is clearly rooted in complex modern societal and environmental changes, many of...
This review aims to summarise and evaluate the potential mechanisms and evidence for the role of prenatal infection on the central nervous system, and how it...
Antioxidant intakes in pregnancy may influence fetal immune programming and the risk of allergic disease.
Honorary Research Fellow
Food allergy affects families' quality of life, can be lifelong and life-threatening, urging the identification of early modifiable risk factors. Formula feeding in the first days of life may increase the risk of cow's milk allergy, a risk often attributed to cow's milk allergens exposure. Early formula feeding also reduces the colostrum intake, the first 3 days' milk, which is rich in bioactive compounds critical for immune and gut health. This study investigates whether partial colostrum feeding increases the risk of food allergy beyond cow's milk.