I wonder if there is any way to account for a child who won't accept
certain foods when offered?  I'm thinking of the premise that
children often refuse to eat foods to which they might be sensitive
or allergic.  The researchers' finding that delayed introduction of
egg and milk led to increased risk of allergy might be skewed by an
unaccounted-for self-protection instinct in susceptible children.

Did they define "introduced" as the food being offered, or as the
food actually being accepted and consumed (once or regularly)?

They do say that they took breastfeeding history into account when
correcting for confounders.

Margaret
LLLL
Longmont, CO


>
>Except for egg and milk, age when foods were introduced into the diet did
>not affect the development of hypersensitivity. In contrast to other
>reports, late introduction of milk or egg was linked to an increased risk
>of eczema after correcting for parental atopy, smoking, gender, maternal
>factors and breast feeding history. The adjusted odds ratio was 1.7 for
>milk introduced after 6 months of age, and it was 1.6 for egg introduced
>after 8 months.
>

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