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Epitope Health teaches what published research and FDA labels say, and how strong that evidence is. It cannot know your situation, and nothing here is a diagnosis, a dose for one person, or a decision about whether a food, medicine or procedure suits one person. Those decisions belong with a licensed clinician who can examine you.

If a reaction is happening now, use epinephrine if it has been prescribed and call 911. After surgery, trouble breathing or chest pain needs 911. If you are thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988, any time.

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Starting solid foods with a baby?

Peanut and egg in infancy, eczema, and reactions that look different in babies.

4 guides, about 14 minutes in all

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Early introduction of peanut and egg

The trials that changed advice on feeding babies allergenic foods, what the guidelines now say, and what is still unknown.

Read the guideFor clinicians

Then, in this order

  1. Eczema and the atopic march

    What eczema is, why it is tied to food allergy and asthma, whether moisturizing a baby's skin prevents it, and which treatments the evidence supports.

    3 min read10 sourcesFor clinicians

  2. FPIES

    What food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome is, how it differs from a typical food allergy, how common it is, and what studies report about outgrowing it.

    2 min read5 sourcesFor clinicians

  3. Food allergy: the basics

    What researchers mean by a food allergy, how often it is real, what can look like one, and what studies report about outgrowing it.

    5 min read16 sourcesFor clinicians

The allergist visit checklist

What to note, bring and ask, on one printable page.

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