Can Hong Kong take advantage of recent advances in allergy prevention?

Major opportunities have been identified recently to prevent allergic disorders including the early introduction of allergenic foods to infants1-9 and immunotherapy.10,11 Breast feeding is still strongly encouraged, but new evidence suggests that the avoidance of allergenic foods in infancy to delay the onset of allergic diseases may have sustained rather than prevented food allergies and eczema. International guidelines on infant feeding are being revised.12-14 It is a moot point whether Hong Kong has the infrastructure required to exploit these transformative opportunities to improve public health in allergy.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Hong Kong medical journal = Xianggang yi xue za zhi

• Publication date

  2017-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.12809/hkmj175069PMID 29026052
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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