Chronic food antigen-specific IgG-mediated hypersensitivity reaction as a risk factor for adolescent depressive disorder

This 2016 article explains that lifestyles and exposure to various environmental factors may be responsible for the rapid rise in childhood allergies reported in Westernized countries. Microbiological studies have already demonstrated that altered compositions in gut microbial communities during very early life may be connected to the presence of food allergies during childhood. Moreover, infants […]

This 2018 study tests the hypothesis that the intestinal microbiome of children with food allergies may be significantly different to those found in genetically similar non-allergic children and age-matched controls. The objective of this study was to characterize the microbiota found in fecal samples to identify the bacteria taxa that may affect expression of food […]