Egg Allergy

In 2020, guidelines changed to encourage parents and caregivers to introduce peanut and egg to infants aged 4 months to 6 months to help prevent food allergies. Yet many parents still refrain from making these early introductions.

Although food allergy appeared common among children with atopic dermatitis, only 3% had food-triggered atopic dermatitis, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Children with milk and egg allergies who tolerated baked proteins had higher reactivity thresholds than the general population of children with these allergies, according to a study published in Allergy.

PHOENIX — Allergens should not be avoided but rather introduced early and often into an infant’s diet to reduce risk for food allergy, according to a presentation at American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

Patients with multiple food allergies had higher rates of comorbidities, such as asthma and atopic dermatitis, and they underwent more diagnostic testing, according to study results.

Children who ate eggs more frequently as infants were less likely to have egg allergies later in childhood, according to a study presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

Preschool children with egg allergy, eczema or asthma appeared at increased risk for tree nut symptoms and storage protein sensitization in early adulthood, according to study results published in Clinical & Experimental Allergy.