Infant feeding and allergy prevention: a review of current knowledge and recommendations. A EuroPrevall state of the art paper |
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| Authors: | K. E. C. Grimshaw,K. Allen,C. A. Edwards,K. Beyer,A. Boulay,L. B. van der Aa,A. Sprikkelman,S. Belohlavkova,M. Clausen,R. Dubakiene,E. Duggan,M. Reche,L. V. Marino,P. Nø rhede,L. Ogorodova,A. Schoemaker,A. Stanczyk-Przyluska,Z. Szepfalusi,E. Vassilopoulou,S. H. E. Veehof,B. J. Vlieg-Boerstra,M. Wjst,A. E. J. Dubois |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Child Health, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;2. Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, Melbourne, Australia;3. Human Nutrition Section, Division of Developmental Medicine, Glasgow University Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow, UK;4. Department of Paediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany;5. Department of Consumer Science, Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK;6. Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Emma Children’s Hospital, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;7. Pediatric Department, Faculty Hospital Bulovka, Prague, Czech Republic;8. Department for Paediatrics and department of Allergy, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland;9. Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania;10. Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland;11. Department of Allergy Services Hospital la Paz, Madrid, Spain;12. Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College, London, UK;13. Department of Toxicology and Risk Assessment, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark;14. Department of Faculty Pediatrics, Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk, Russia;15. Department of Pediatrics, Clinical Immunology and Cardiology Medical University of ?ód?, ?ód?, Poland;16. Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria;17. Allergy Research Centre, 2nd Pediatric Clinic, University of Athens, Athens, Greece;18. Melloni Paediatria, University of Milan Medical School at the Macedonio Melloni Hospital, Milan, Italy;19. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergy, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands;20. Institute of Lung biology and disease, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich‐Neuherberg, Germany;21. Institute of Genetic Medicine European Academy (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy |
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| 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. |
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| Keywords: | food allergy pediatrics prevention |
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