According to WHO,“complementary feeding (CF) is the process starting when breast milk
alone or infant formula alone is no longer sufficient to meet the nutritional requirements of …

Background The evidence on the relationship between diet diversity in early life and allergic
outcomes was few and inconsistent. We sought to determine the association of food diversity …

There have been dramatic changes in timing of first exposure to solid foods for children over
the last 40 years, ranging from exposure prior to 4 months of age for most infants in the …

Background Epidemiological data on infant feeding practices and allergic diseases are
controversial. The purpose of this study was to explore the association of early weaning with …

Background Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is considered to be an autoimmune disease,
but the etiology is unknown. We decided to study the influence of early nutrition on later …

Oral tolerance refers to the observation that prior feeding of an antigen induces local and
systemic immune tolerance to that antigen. Physiologically, this process is probably of …

Celiac disease (CD) is an immune‐mediated enteropathy, triggered by dietary wheat gluten
and similar proteins of barley and rye in genetically susceptible individuals. The etiology of …

Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition triggered by the ingestion of gluten, the protein
fraction of wheat, barley and rye. It is not simply an intestinal disease; it is multifactorial …

Increased risk of allergy during early life indicates deficient immune regulation in this period
of life. To date, the cause for inefficient neonatal immune regulation has never been …

Given that the prevalence of pediatric IgE-mediated food allergies (FA) has followed a
substantive increase in recent decades, nowadays, a research challenge is to establish …