Infants

Infants who are peanut-sensitised or have peanut allergy are not necessarily allergic, suggests a new study.

Infants treated with the LGG probiotic formula who developed tolerance to cow's milk had higher levels of bacteria that produce butyrate than those who were fed the probiotic formula but did not develop tolerance.

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed new limits for inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal, an effort to reduce the leading source of arsenic exposure for babies.

A non-invasive and inexpensive hearing test may help physicians identify infants with autism risk as researches have discovered that an inner ear deficiency may impact speech recognition ability of children with the disorder.

Infants who get a taste of eggs and peanuts starting when theyre as young as 4 months old may have a lower risk of developing allergies to those foods than babies who try them later, ...

Most of the time, parents can safely feed peanuts to babies on their own, but infants with a history of allergies should still get a checkup first, a research review confirms.

Infants who nurse during vaccinations may cry less and feel less pain than babies who are soothed in other ways, a research review suggests.

The baby food industry has violated the Infant Milk Substitutes Act (IMS) that bans promotion of breast-milk substitutes at least 54 times between 2008 and 2016, according to an industry watchdog.

The latest research carried out by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health discovered that infants who started having solid foods early on showed changes in the levels of gut bacteria and bacterial byproducts.

The first few years in a child's life play a huge role in determining how healthy, unhealthy or obese he/she will be in the future. This makes it crucial that infants be fed with the ...