Early Life Eczema, Food Introduction, and Risk of Food Allergy in Children.

ABSTRACT: The effect of food introduction timing on the development of food allergy remains controversial. We sought to examine whether the presence of childhood eczema changes the relationship between timing of food introduction and food allergy. The analysis includes 960 children recruited as part of a family-based food allergy cohort. Food allergy was determined by objective symptoms developing within 2 hours of ingestion, corroborated by skin prick testing/specific IgE. Physician diagnosis of eczema and timing of formula and solid food introduction were obtained by standardized interview. Cox Regression analysis provided hazard ratios for the development of food allergy for the same subgroups. Logistic regression models estimated the association of eczema and formula/food introduction with the r

SUBMITTER: Kumar R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3281290 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature