Australian Clinical Trials

Broad Health Condition Inflammatory and Immune System

Specific Health ConditionAllergies

Trial Focus

Recruitment Details

Recruitment status
Active, not recruiting

Recruitment State
VIC

Hospital

Anticipated date of last participant enrolment23/12/2019

Phase of TrialNot Applicable

Has the study received ethics approval?Approved

Trial summary

The EarlyNuts study will recruit a population-based sample of 2.000 12-month-old infants in Melbourne, Australia, to: 
1)	Measure the current prevalence of challenge-proven peanut, cashew, egg and cow's milk allergy; 
2)	Measure current practices around introduction of allergenic foods (peanut, egg, tree nuts and cow’s milk) to infants in the population; and
3)	Measure the association between age at introduction of allergenic foods and the development of allergy to these foods.

Key inclusion criteria

Infants aged 11-15 months attending council-led immunisation sessions in Melbourne, Australia 

Minimum age11 Months

Maximum age15 Months

GenderBoth males and females

Can Healthy volunteers participate? No

Key exclusion criteria

Parent or guardian must be able to provide informed consent in English