Janela imunológica e a introdução de alimentos potencialmente alergênicos: uma revisão integrativa.

Abstract

The first thousand days of life, which are counted from the beginning of pregnancy, are characterized as a window of opportunity to promote habits that can translate health into the future life of a child, becoming a moment of great importance for the providing a balanced, complete and nutritionally appropriate diet, in order to result in an effective and healthy child development. Food allergy (FA), in turn, is a pathology with wide prevalence in the first years of life, presenting itself through symptoms that affect both the health and the individual's lifestyle. In this sense, this work aimed to analyze and elucidate the consequences of the introduction of potentially allergenic foods in reducing the incidence of food allergies. This is an integrative literature review of the last five years on the early introduction of foods taxed as allergens. Data collection was carried out in stages, through research in databases and resulted in the analysis of eleven articles that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study. It can be seen that the inclusion of highly allergenic foods in complementary feeding has been widely discussed and handled differently over the years. However, currently, several analyzes are carried out in order to assess the effects of early insertion of these foods, and they point to a viable strategy to reduce the prevalence of food allergies.