Article: AAAAI: Premature Infants Do Not Seem to be Predisposed to Food Allergies, From the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

MILWAUKEE, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Premature infants do not have an increased risk of developing food allergies than normal-birth-weight infants, according to new research in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI).

The study, "The risk of developing food allergy in premature or low-birth- weight children," can be found online at http://www.jacionline.org/. The JACI is the peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI).

Joel J. Liem, MD, FRCPC, University of Manitoba, and colleagues, sought to determine if premature or low-birth-weight children whose guts are immature and more permeable allowing foods to be ...

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