Gut microbiome patterns have been associated with predisposition to eczema potentially through modulation of innate immune signalling.
We aimed to investigate the long-term effects (12 years) of fish oil supplementation in pregnancy on neurodevelopment, including cognition, language…
The dramatic rise in early childhood allergic diseases indicates the specific vulnerability of the immune system to early life environmental changes.
Allergic diseases are a major cause of morbidity in the developed world, now affecting up to 40 % of the population with no evidence that this is aba…
The aim of this study was to determine whether supplementation with fish oil-derived n-3 PUFA during pregnancy modifies modifies placental PUFA compo…
The diagnosis of food allergy (FA) can be challenging because approximately half of food-sensitized patients are asymptomatic.
HealthNuts is a single-centre, multi-wave, population-based longitudinal study designed to assess prevalence, determinants, natural history and aller…
Prevalence of allergic diseases in infants, whose parents and siblings do not have allergy, is approximately 10% and reaches 20-30% in those with an…
This book chapter explains the maturation of immune functions during pregnancy & in early childhood, and addresses the importance of early environmen…
The rise in food allergy is more rapid than genetic deviation would allow and the current consensus is that environmental factors integrally linked t…