Prevention of allergic disease in childhood: Clinical and epidemiological aspects of primary and secondary allergy prevention

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Supplement

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 9-32

  Halken, Susanne ^a  

^a Sonderborg Hospital   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Allergy prediction; Allergy prevention; Children; Cow's milk allergy; Hypoallergenic formula

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PROBIOTIC AGENT; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN;

ALLERGY; ARTIFICIAL MILK; ATOPY; BREAST FEEDING; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFANT; MILK ALLERGY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SENSITIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ANIMAL; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; EXPOSURE; FOOD ALLERGY; HEREDITY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; META ANALYSIS; MILK; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ASTHMA; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HEREDITY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFANT; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MILK; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RISK FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 3142763787     PISSN: 09065784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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