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Allergies in Infants: How to Identify the Cause

Working out what an infant is reacting to is harder than the parenting forums make it look. Babies meet five new foods in a fortnight, the worst eczem...

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How Food Allergy Differs from Food Intolerance

Allergy and intolerance are often used interchangeably, but they are different conditions with different mechanisms, different presentations, and diff...

4 min read

Health

How Allergies Present in Babies

Allergies in babies look different from allergies in adults, and they often look different from what parents expect. Recognising the signs — and knowi...

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Food Allergy vs Food Intolerance in Children: What's the Difference

Few topics in infant and child health cause more confusion than food allergy versus food intolerance. The terms are used interchangeably in conversati...

4 min read

Feeding

Introducing Allergenic Foods to Babies: Peanuts, Eggs, and the New Evidence

If you have any older relatives offering weaning advice, you may already be hearing the old rule — wait until the baby is at least one before peanut,...

6 min read

Health

Living With a Child's Food Allergy: The Practical Day-to-Day

The diagnosis of a serious food allergy is one of those parental moments where the world reorganises itself in an afternoon. Suddenly every label matt...

10 min read

Feeding

Allergenic Foods for Babies: The LEAP Trial Story and What It Means at Your Kitchen Table

The story of how peanut introduction advice reversed itself is the most dramatic policy shift in paediatric feeding in a generation. The science is no...

8 min read

Health

Food Allergy Tests in Children: What They Tell You and What They Don't

After a child has a food reaction — or even just suspected one — the natural next question is "what test will tell us?" The honest answer is more laye...

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