The conventional wisdom is that early exposure to allergenic food proteins during pregnancy, lactation, or infancy leads to food allergies, and that prevention strategies should therefore aim to eliminate allergenic food proteins during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and early childhood. Prolonged exclusive breastfeeding and delayed weaning onto solid foods is therefore seen as an effective public h...

Gastrointestinal symptoms IgE-mediated gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, occur fairly soon after an IgE-mediated reaction. Non IgE-mediated reactions are often chronic, such as vomiting and/or reflux, unresolved diarrhoea, or constipation. Both reflux and constipation have been linked to gut dysmotility and protein in cow’s milk (Lacono et al, 1998). Symptoms of...

Food allergies are increasing in prevalence and as a disease burden throughout the world, however they seem to increasingly affect countries with a formerly low prevalence. Consideration and diagnosis of food allergies are important as it has ramifications that affect a child's diet, care at school and home and is recognised to be associated with anxiety of parents, family and care takers. Food...

Introduction: Food allergy is an immune-mediated hypersensitivity to allergens in food. This allergy affects about 6-8% of children younger than three years, about 4% of school-age children and about 2% of the adult population in the world. Aim: To investigate the prevalence of food allergies in the population of preschool children from the city of Osijek and to identify the most common causes ...

Although food allergy is a major public health problem, currently there is no effective and safe treatment except to avoid the foods .But the need for new options is critical now as the number of children diagnosed with food allergies rises. Avoiding the offending allergen in the diet is the primary treatment of food allergy. Once a food to which the patient is sensitive has been identified, th...