Antibiotic prescription and food allergy in young children

Antibiotic prescription and food allergy in young children

BACKGROUND To assess the relationship between any systemic antibiotic prescription within the first year of life and the presence of an ICD-9-CM diagnosis code for food allergy (FA). METHODS This was a matched case-control study conducted using South Carolina Medicaid administrative data. FA cases born between 2007 and 2009 were matched to controls without FA on birth month/year, sex, race/et...

Food allergy in children and young people

Clinical Protests Food Allergy in Children

The best recognized intestinal manifestation of food allergy is food allergic (food-sensitive) enteropathy. The feature of enteropathy may include lymphocyte and plasma cell infiltration, epithelial abnormality, or crypt hyperplastic villous atrophy, and impairing absorption, enterophaty continues while the food remains in the diet, remitting on an exclusion diet, and usually recurring on food ...

Assessing eczema and food allergy in young children

………………………………………………………………………. . 1 LIST OF ORIGINAL PAPERS …………………………………………………... . 3 ABBREVIATIONS ……………………………………………………………….. 4 DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONS ……………………………………….... 5 INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………..... 7 The Atopic March ………………………………………………............... 8 Risk factors in atopic disease ………………………………………….. 8 Prevention of atopic disease ……………………………………………10 Eczema ……………………………………...

The Evaluation of Food Allergy on Behavior in Autistic Children

Background: Despite many efforts, the etiology of autism remains unknown. Food allergy has been suggested as a pathogenic factor in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Our aim in this study was to determine whether food allergy could be considered as a risk factor for autistic children. Methods: Thirty-nine autistic children were examined by the skin prick test (SPT), and total serum IgE was eva...