Jiyeon Oh, Myeongcheol Lee, Jaeyu Park, Hyeon Jin Kim, Seung Won Lee, Masoud Rahmati, Ai Koyanagi, Lee Smith, Min Seo Kim, Guillermo F López Sánchez, Elena Dragioti, Chanyang Min, Nikolaos G Papadopoulos, Youn Ho Shin, Jae Il Shin, Dong Keon Yon
BACKGROUND: There are only preliminary studies examining the associations of postnatal antibiotic exposure with food allergy in childhood, and the effect of antibiotic exposure in utero has not been resolved. Thus, we aimed to investigate the effect of prenatal and postnatal antibiotic exposure on the risk of food allergy in childhood. METHODS: Using the nationwide birth cohort in South Korea, all 3,163,206 infants (pairing mother; n = 2,322,735) born in South Korea between 2010 and 2017 were included in the analysis...
March 2024: Pediatric Allergy and Immunology