Great results for infant feeding guidelines

Three updates to Australian infant feeding advice was agreed upon at a recent Centre for Food and Allergy Research Summit in Melbourne, changing the Australian infant feeding guidelines to the following recommendations:

1. When your infant is ready, at around six months, but not before four months, start to introduce a variety of solid foods, starting with iron rich foods, while continuing breastfeeding.
2. All infants should be given allergenic solid foods including peanut butter, cooked egg and dairy and wheat products in the first year of life. This includes infants at high risk of allergy.
3. Hydrolysed (partially and extensively) infant formula are not recommended for prevention of allergic disease.

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