Dietary Prophylaxis of Allergic Disease in Children

Abstract

IN 1953 Glaser and Johnstone¹ reported on the use of soybean milk as an aid in the prophylaxis of allergic disease in children. They concluded that if one withheld cow's milk, beef, egg and wheat from the diets of potentially allergic children from the time of birth until the age of six to nine months, only one quarter as many of these children acquired major respiratory allergies compared to their siblings and another nonrelated control group. They also reported that the incidence of atopic eczema in infants on the restricted diet was only one fourth as great as in the . . .