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Allergy Prevention - an update
Updated October 16, 2006
Preventing allergies in infancy is currently a major focus for allergy specialists and new information is emerging all the time. The following updated recommendations are based on the most recent ASCIA Guidelines on Infant feeding and allergy prevention (who based their guideline on a consensus agreement by participants in the Infant Feeding Summit hosted by the Centre for Food & Allergy Research (CFAR)) in May 2016. They are now widely accepted as sensible, prudent measures to take if you have any allergies in your family.