title: Infant feeding and allergy prevention: a review of current knowledge and recommendations. A EuroPrevall state of the art paper.
abstract: The relationship between infant feeding patterns and the later development of food allergies has been the focus of much debate and research over the last decade. National recommendations have been made by many countries on how to feed infants to reduce the risk of food allergy but due to the lack of firm evidence the recommendations differ widely. This review has been developed as part of EuroPrevall, a European multicentre research project funded by the European Union, to document the differing feeding recommendations made across Europe, to investigate the current evidence base for any allergy prevention feeding recommendations and to identify areas where further research is needed. This review will also provide information which, when combined with the infant feeding data collected as part of EuroPrevall, will give an indication of compliance to national feeding guidelines which can be utilised to assess the effectiveness of current dissemination and implementation strategies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Health, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: K E C
authors.initials: KEC
authors.lastname: Grimshaw
authors.affiliation: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.affiliation: Human Nutrition Section, Division of Developmental Medicine, Glasgow University Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Beyer
authors.affiliation: Department of Consumer Science, Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boulay
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Van Der Aa
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sprikkelman
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Department, Faculty Hospital Bulovka, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Belohlavkova
authors.affiliation: Department for Paediatrics and department of Allergy, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Clausen
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dubakiene
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Duggan
authors.affiliation: Department of Allergy Services Hospital la Paz, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reche
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College, London, UK.
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Marino
authors.affiliation: Department of Toxicology and Risk Assessment, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nørhede
authors.affiliation: Department of Faculty Pediatrics, Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk, Russia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ogorodova
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schoemaker
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Clinical Immunology and Cardiology Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stanczyk-Przyluska
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Szepfalusi
authors.affiliation: Allergy Research Centre, 2nd Pediatric Clinic, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vassilopoulou
authors.affiliation: Melloni Paediatria, University of Milan Medical School at the Macedonio Melloni Hospital, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: S H E
authors.initials: SHE
authors.lastname: Veehof
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergy, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Vlieg-Boerstra
authors.affiliation: Institute of Lung biology and disease, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany.|Institute of Genetic Medicine European Academy (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wjst
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergy, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: A E J
authors.initials: AEJ
authors.lastname: Dubois
mesh_terms: D001942:Breast Feeding; D005060:Europe; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006287:Health Planning Guidelines; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D041943:Infant Formula / Q000737:chemistry; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn