Children diagnosed with atopic dermatitis or food allergy were more likely to develop either disorder as time went on, according to a study published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.
“Atopic dermatitis (AD) is considered to occur before the development of food allergy (FA),” Carina Venter, PhD, RD, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital Colorado, told Healio.
“We wanted to study if there are other directions these two diseases occur as well. We conducted a descriptive analysis of transitions