Are there supplements I can take to avoid getting allergies?

Are there supplements I can take to avoid getting allergies?

Harold Kaiser (Practicing Allergist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School) gives expert video advice on: How do I prevent getting allergies?; Are there supplements I can take to avoid getting allergies? and more...

The answer is probably not. There are a lot of theories and a lot of anecdotes but the good science is not compelling that food manipulation early in childhood or during pregnancy prevents allergies. It seems reasonable if your family has food allergy and you're wondering what should I feed by baby, that you should not feed them the foods that members in your family are allergic to. Unfortunately again, the science is not good enough to forcefully recommend that. So, there is a lot of advice about avoid this, avoid that, don't do this, do that without hard evidence that this is really so. So, there are no food preventing medications. In other words, you can't take probiotics or certain vitamins or kelp or any of the alternative foods and prevent allergies or asthma.