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📝 Episode Description

What if your baby has an allergic reaction to a food? The only way to know if your baby is allergic is to offer them that food…but there are some safety guidelines you want to know about.

In this episode we’ll look at the recent research and updated guidelines that support early introduction of potentially allergenic foods and then how to safely prepare those foods to help lower your baby’s risk of food allergy.

 💡Listen to this episode to learn

1. What the Top 9 allergenic foods are and how you can use real food to introduce them to your baby

2. What to do if your baby has an allergic reaction to food…and why they are unlikely to die from that

3. How to safely introduce all of the Top 9 allergenic foods in the first 9 weeks after starting solids

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📢 Other Episodes Related To This Topic

• Episode 58 - What do I do if My Baby Has an Allergic Reaction? with Ron Sunog, MD

   

• Episode 227 - When Does the Food Allergy Prevention Window Close? with @allergykidsdoc David Stukus, MD

   

•  Episode 380 - Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH

🔎 Resources & Research

• Du Toit, George et al. “Randomized trial of peanut consumption in infants at risk for peanut allergy.” The New England journal of medicine vol. 372,9 (2015): 803-13.

• Fiocchi, Alessandro et al. “Food allergy and the introduction of solid foods to infants: a consensus document. Adverse Reactions to Foods Committee, American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.” Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology vol. 97,1 (2006): 10-20; quiz 21, 77. 

   

•  Tran, Maxwell M et al. “Timing of food introduction and development of food sensitization in a prospective birth cohort.” Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology vol. 28,5 (2017): 471-477.

   

•  Perkin, Michael R et al. “Enquiring About Tolerance (EAT) study: Feasibility of an early allergenic food introduction regimen.” The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology vol. 137,5 (2016): 1477-1486.e8.

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