Children facing ‘allergy epidemic’ due to delayed introduction of certain foods

Whenever you give your child tomato sauce, they have a reaction. But when you give them tomatoes in other forms, nothing happens. Could it be an allergy?

“This is not an allergy,” says Dr Juan Trujillo, a paediatric allergist and co-director of the Centre of Excellence in Allergy at Cork University Hospital and UCC.

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