Alison Joanne Lee, Elizabeth Huiwen Tham, Anne Eng-Neo Goh, Wern-Ee Tang, Yew-Cheong Tung, Yehudi Yeo, Keith Tsou, Le-Ye Lee, Jian-Yi Soh, Cesar Brence Labastida, Ping-Ping Wang, Michelle Mei-Ling Tan, Hsin Yue Cheng, Yiong-Huak Chan, Hugo Van Bever, Lynette Pei-Chi Shek, Bee-Wah Lee
Background: The rising prevalence of food allergy reported in the United States, UK, and Australia may be attributable to the rise in peanut allergy prevalence. The food allergy prevalence in other parts of the world such as Asia is, however, less well documented. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of cow's milk, egg, and peanut allergies in a general population of Singaporean children below 30 months of age. Methods: A total of 4,115 children from the general population who attended well-baby visits between 2011 and 2015 completed standardized questionnaires to elicit a convincing history of food allergy to estimate the population prevalence of food allergies...
July 2022: Asia Pacific Allergy