Everything You Need to Know About FOOD ALLERGIES *Update* (Nutrition Labels, Research & Sesame) with Bob Earl, MPH, RDN

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Episode Description

What causes food allergies and can introducing certain foods early to your baby help prevent food allergy? Food allergy guidance and recommendations seems to be changing quite regularly and figuring out the best way to safely introduce allergenic foods is confusing.

 In this episode dietitian Bob Earl from Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) at foodallergy.org updates us on everything new and notable in food allergies including allergen labeling for the newest allergen on the Top 9 which is sesame.

About the Guest

• Bob Fare, MPH, RDN is the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE)
• Bob works on efforts related to food allergy awareness and labeling, WIC and school meals.

Other Episodes Related to this Episode

• Episode 401 - Does the Order of Allergenic Food Introduction Matter?
• Episode 380 - Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH
• Episode 227 - When Does the Food Allergy Prevention Window Close? with @allergykidsdoc David Stukus, MD

Resources & Research

• Du Toit, George et al. “Randomized trial of peanut consumption in infants at risk for peanut allergy.” The New England journal of medicine vol. 372,9 (2015): 803-13. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1414850
• Perkin, Michael R et al. “Randomized Trial of Introduction of Allergenic Foods in Breast-Fed Infants.” The New England journal of medicine vol. 374,18 (2016): 1733-43. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1514210
• Perkin, Michael R et al. “Enquiring About Tolerance (EAT) study: Feasibility of an early allergenic food introduction regimen.” The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology vol. 137,5 (2016): 1477-1486.e8. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2015.12.1322

Link from this Episode

• FARE website: https://www.foodallergy.org/