Allergic Disease - High Risk Infant

Pathway Contributor: Connie Stuart

Credentials:
PDt, SLD

Bio:
Connie Stuart is registered dietitian who has worked in pediatrics for the last 13 years. She has worked at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in England and at Johns Hopkins Children’s Hospital in the United States. She has covered a wide variety of clinical areas such as Gastroenterology, Cystic Fibrosis, Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Neonatal Intensive Care, Renal, and inpatients areas. Currently Connie is working at McMaster Children’s Hospital in the Neonatal Follow up Clinic and in the Level 2 Nursery. When living in England, Connie was involved in a research study funded by the Cerebral Palsy Association, which evaluated parents’ ability to appropriately refer directly to the dietitian. Connie graduated from the Applied Human Nutrition Program at Guelph University and completed her clinical internship at University of Alberta Hospitals in Edmonton.

Contributions:

• What infant feeding formulas contribute to risk reduction for allergic diseases, including food allergy and eczema, among infants at high risk for allergy?  

  Role: Reviewer

• What infant feeding formulas contribute to risk reduction for allergic diseases, including food allergy and eczema, among infants at high risk for allergy?  

  Role: Author

• Do infants and children with a parental history of allergy who are exclusively breastfed and whose mothers avoid common allergenic foods during breastfeeding have a reduced incidence of allergy as compared to infants whose mothers do not restrict their diets?  

  Role: Reviewer

• Do infants and children with a parental history of allergy who are exclusively breastfed and whose mothers avoid common allergenic foods during breastfeeding have a reduced incidence of allergy as compared to infants whose mothers do not restrict their diets?  

  Role: Author

• Do infants with a parental history of allergy have a reduced incidence of allergy if their mothers avoid common allergenic foods during pregnancy as compared to infants of mothers who do not restrict their diets during pregnancy?  

  Role: Reviewer

• Do infants with a parental history of allergy have a reduced incidence of allergy if their mothers avoid common allergenic foods during pregnancy as compared to infants of mothers who do not restrict their diets during pregnancy?  

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• Does a history of maternal atopy predict a higher risk for the development of allergy in infants and children as compared to a paternal history of atopy?  

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• Does a history of maternal atopy predict a higher risk for the development of allergy in infants and children as compared to a paternal history of atopy?  

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• Among infants with parental history of allergy, does a combination of maternal avoidance of common allergenic foods during breastfeeding, infant feeding with hydrolyzed formula, delayed introduction of common allergenic foods and a house dust mite reduction program decrease the incidence of allergy as compared to infant-mother pairs who do not adhere to these interventions?  

  Role: Reviewer

• Among infants with parental history of allergy, does a combination of maternal avoidance of common allergenic foods during breastfeeding, infant feeding with hydrolyzed formula, delayed introduction of common allergenic foods and a house dust mite reduction program decrease the incidence of allergy as compared to infant-mother pairs who do not adhere to these interventions?  

  Role: Author

• Does the early introduction of common allergenic complementary foods in an infant’s diet decrease the risk of food allergy?  

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• Does the early introduction of common allergenic complementary foods in an infant’s diet decrease the risk of food allergy?  

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• Among term infants and children with a parental history of allergy, does breastfeeding reduce the incidence of allergy?  

  Role: Reviewer

• Among term infants and children with a parental history of allergy, does breastfeeding reduce the incidence of allergy?  

  Role: Author

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