A clinical perspective on food-relatA Clinical Perspective on Food-Related Diseases in the First Year of Lifeed diseases in the first year of life

Food-related disease processes can have a wide presentation picture.  We present here a review of their clinical patterns in infants to allow a prompt diagnosis and appropriate management.   Included in the discussion in infants from birth to 12 months includes IgE-mediated food allergy, food protein–induced allergic proctocolitis , food protein enterocolitis syndrome, atopic dermatitis, eosinophilic esophagitis, and eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease.  The bibliography is updated to the past two years unless the latest guideline pre-dated 2018, or the reference was of a classic nature.