title: Infant Feeding: Foods, Nutrients and Dietary Strategies to Prevent Allergy.
abstract: Food allergy is a common disease. In recent years, recommendations for the prevention of food allergy have been shifted from avoidance strategies to active oral tolerance induction. Due to evidence from observational studies, it has been suggested that sensitization occurs via the skin especially in children with atopic dermatitis due to skin barrier defects, whereas early oral introduction of the allergenic food(s) will promote tolerance. The current evidence does not justify recommendations about either withholding or encouraging exposure to potentially allergenic food(s) after 4 months once weaning has commenced, irrespective of atopic heredity. However, intervention studies are currently conducted to prove this hypothesis generated by observational studies.
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Beyer
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development; D003888:Desensitization, Immunologic / Q000639:trends; D000072001:Diet, Healthy; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005248:Feeding Methods; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D007223:Infant; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic