Abstract
As food allergy develops in early infancy, enough care for nutrition and maintenance of Quality of Life (QOL) of allergic children and their family is very important. Elimination diet is to be confined to food diagnosed as offending allergen definitely. Taking various kinds of food other than that containing offending allergen is recommended in order to maintain rich diet. Although dietary counselling for food allergic children had been confined to elimination and replacement diet for decades, now it is time to proceed to tailor-made diet aiming at “eating” with minimal elimination diet based on precise diagnosis.
Reducing antigenicity of food makes it possible to take food without allergic symptoms resulting in early outgrow as well as improvement of QOL and safety. Dietary counselling on the basis of the amounts of antigen in food after precise evaluation of one's state of sensitization and oral food challenge test is expected to lead allergic children to early outgrow.
