Food Allergy awareness week 2017
People often ask me why are allergies on the increase, and is it just being over diagnosed? Well the answer is no, the increased prevalence is not secondary to over- diagnosis, in fact 1 in 10 Australian babies born today will develop a food allergy. We do not know why exactly but evidence suggests it is a combination of genetic predisposition as well as environment that determines allergies. Leading researchers at the Murdoch Institute in Melbourne hypothesize the 5 D's as
