Summaries of key food allergy prevention research
Impact of Australian Guidelines in WA Cohorts
This study aimed to compare the prevalence of IgE-mediated food allergies at 1 year of age between two groups of babies born in WA, before and after the ASCIA infant feeding and allergy prevention guidelines were released in 2016.
The Learning Early About Peanut allergy (LEAP) study
This study was a research trial overseen by doctors to understand how to prevent peanut allergy in babies.
Enquiring About Tolerance (EAT) study
This study was a randomised controlled trial to test the effect on food allergy development of very early introduction to solid foods including common allergy causing foods (from 3 months) compared with introduction to solid foods including common allergy causing foods at 6 months.
