Food allergy (FA) affects 2%-10% of US children and is a growing clinical and public health problem.
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 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…
The rise in food allergy is more rapid than genetic deviation would allow and the current consensus is that environmental factors integrally linked t…
The pathogenesis of asthma continues to be a major topic of interest to our authors with reviews and original papers on the role of viruses, mechanis…
This article focuses on IgE-mediated food allergies and allergic rhinitis, the most commonly seen conditions in paediatric immunology.
Food allergy can have significant effects on morbidity and quality of life and can be costly in terms of medical visits and treatments.
Reliance on increasing use of dietary supplementation and fortification (eg, with folate) to compensate for increased consumption of processed foods…