Children facing ‘allergy epidemic’ due to delayed introduction of certain foods

Avoiding certain foods, as advised in the past, may actually increase the risk of children developing allergies

The most common childhood food allergens here are milk, eggs, peanuts and tree nuts

Whenever you give your child tomato sauce, they have a reaction. But when you give them tomatoes in other forms, nothing happens. Could it be an allergy?

“This is not an allergy,” says Dr Juan Trujillo, a paediatric allergist and co-director of the Centre of Excellence in Allergy at Cork University Hospital and UCC.