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Allergy specialist Professor Susan Prescott gives her tips on how you can help prevent your child from developing a food allergy.

In this review, we describe both the mechanisms and the therapeutic evidence from preclinical and clinical studies exploring the role of prebiotics in allergy prevention

To assess the efficacy and adverse events of epicutaneous immunotherapy with a peanut patch among peanut-allergic children

We conclude that genuine serious allergic reaction to propofol is rare and is not reliably predicted by a history of food allergy

We systematically reviewed the literature on the genetic basis of food allergy, identifying areas for further investigation

Infant feeding practices in Australia have changed over the past decade; a large majority of infants are now fed peanut before 12 months of age

This study highlights an unpredicted potential risk factor for the development of food allergy, that is, D pteronyssinus allergens in breast milk

Australian infants who received whole-cell pertussis vaccines were less likely to be diagnosed with food allergy in childhood

Showed for the first time that the presence of an egg-derived allergen in breast milk is associated with a reduced risk of egg allergy in children at 2.5 years of age

Peanut allergy is the most common childhood-onset, persistent food allergy. Peanut oral immunotherapy (OIT) is a potential treatment, but few studies prospectively examine the outcome of peanut OIT in young children using parent-measured doses compared to standard care (peanut avoidance).