Food allergy is on the increase among Australian infants, new research reveals, with one in 10 one-year-olds possibly affected.
And the authors say the rise in these allergies mirrors that of the asthma epidemic of the 1990s.
The study of 5000 one-year-olds determined the prevalence of allergies to a range of common allergic foods, including raw egg, peanuts, sesame, shellfish and cow’s milk.
The infants underwent skin prick testing, and those with any food sensitisation (2848 of the infants) underwent an oral food challenge.
More than 10 per cent of these subjects experienced an allergic reaction to the food challenge, a rate that was higher than expected, said the authors, from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, WA.
Raw egg white allergy was the most common,...
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