Researchers look at the gut bugs in infants with eczema and the association between the microbiome and risk of eczema among infants. This is what they found.
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Can eating eggs help an egg allergy?
Researchers looked at whether the supervised, stepwise introduction of egg in infants with eczema reduced the incidence of egg allergy at one year of age.
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Colic is a form of pain that typically comes and goes quite abruptly. When babies are particularly unsettled – we refer to this as infantile colic.
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The word plagiocephaly comes from the Greek plagio – which means oblique, slanting or sloping, and cephal meaning head. With newborns, it’s very common for babies to have oddly shaped heads that resolve spontaneously, within a few weeks. Dr Golly looks at the longer-term changes.