Open AccessHow complementary feeding in infants affects allergies, chronic disease, and neurodevelopment
Author(s) -
Diane M. Duffy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of the american academy of physician assistants
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 17
ISSN - 0893-7400
DOI - 10.1097/01.jaa.0000651712.87289.d0
Subject(s) - allergy , affect (linguistics) , disease , medicine , pediatrics , chronic disease , developmental psychology , psychology , intensive care medicine , immunology , communication , pathology
Recommendations for the timing and type of complementary foods to introduce to infants have recently changed. These changes are due to increased understanding of how these foods affect the development of food allergies, risk for obesity and other chronic diseases, and infant neurodevelopment. This article brings the current recommendations and recent research together and organizes them for clinicians in pediatrics to enable them to understand and convey this information to parents of infants.