Impaired skin barrier and allergic sensitization in early infancy

Factors predicting allergic sensitization in the first 6 months of life are poorly understood. We aimed to determine whether eczema, dry skin, and high transepidermal water loss (TEWL) at 3 months were associated with allergic sensitization at 6 months of age and, secondarily, to establish whether these characteristics predicted sensitization from 3 to 6 months of age.At 3 months of age, 1,994 infants from the population-based PreventADALL birth...