Oral tolerance induction and food allergy prevention: Oral tolerance induction and food allergy prevention

Natallia Tsikhan; Mikhail Belevtsev

doi:10.20883/jms.378

Authors

Natallia Tsikhan Department of Pediatrics, Grodno State Medical University, Grodno, Belarus https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7803-5460
Mikhail Belevtsev Research Center for Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology, Minsk, Belarus https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9533-4705

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20883/jms.378

Keywords:

immune factors, cord blood, breast milk, microbiota, elimination diet

Abstract

This review aims to provide an overview of the issue of oral tolerance induction in early childhood and allergy manifestation. We discuss changes in epidemiology of allergic diseases that have occurred over the last decades in the context of current knowledge about environmental factors affecting prevalence of these diseases. Also this article presents current data about causes of "hygiene hypothesis" expansion to "microflora hypothesis" as well as an immunological background of this process; describes how immune factors of cord blood and breast milk, maternal and infant’s elimination diet, timing a solid food intake impact on immune system development and tolerance induction in early childhood. Current knowledge on issues of tolerance induction and allergy should induce update of allergy prevention recommendations in the nearest future.

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