Food Allergy Prevention 101 with Tina Sindher, MD

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Offering your baby food is the only way to know if they’re allergic to it…but that doesn’t mean it’s not scary. In this episode pediatrician and food allergy practitioner and researcher Tina Sindher, MD is going to teach some basic tips for introducing allergenic foods as a means to help reduce the risk of food allergy in your baby.

SUMMARY OF EPISODE

In this episode we’re talking about:

• Whether it’s more advisable to start allergenic food introduction at 4 or 5 vs. 6 months of age

• Which of the potentially allergenic foods have more data to support their early introduction

• Why researchers are interested in how dry your baby’s skin is as it pertains to food allergy risk

ABOUT THE GUEST

• Tina Sindher, MD is board certified in pediatrics and allergy

• She teaches medicine at Stanford and conducts research and sees patients there

OTHER EPISODES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Episode 380 - Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH

• Episode 366 - Oral Immunotherapy: Helping Babies Become Less Reactive to Allergenic Foods with David Stukus, MD

• Episode 286 - Is My Baby Dairy Intolerant? Food Protein Induced Allergic Proctocolitis (FPIAP) with Marion Groetch, MS, RDN

• Episode 368 - Using a Milk Ladder for Babies with Dairy Allergy with Carina Venter, PhD, RD

LINKS FROM EPISODE

• Stanford Medicine - Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research https://med.stanford.edu/allergyandasthma

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