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There’s no firm evidence eating eggs causes constipation. In fact, eggs may have the opposite effect. Here’s what’s really going on in your gut.
If your child has accidentally eaten something you thought they were allergic to, but doesn’t have a response, they may have grown out of their food allergy. Here’s the safest way to check.
Don’t try this at home, kids.
Parents are now advised to introduce foods like peanut and egg to infants before one year of age.
New research published today shows the early introduction of egg (from four to six months) and peanuts (from four to 11 months) is linked to lower rates of egg and peanut allergy.
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Evidence and Translation Lead, National Allergy Centre of Excellence; Chief Investigator, Centre of Food Allergy Research; Associate Professor and Group Leader, Childhood Allergy & Epidemiology Group, Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland
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Paediatric Allergist and Gastroenterologist, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children's Theme; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute; Affiliate Lecturer, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide University
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Paediatric Allergist and Immunologist, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Head, Early Life & Life-Course Health Program; Team Lead, Nutrition in Early Life; Food Allergy Stream Co-chair, National Allergy Centre of Excellence, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Former Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, King's College London
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Child Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland