Biography
Professor Gideon Lack joined King’s in 2006 as Professor of Paediatric Allergy and Head of the Children’s Allergy Service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a clinical lead in adult and paediatric allergy. He has established two of the nation’s five paediatric allergy centres and is a co-founder of the Allergy Academy at King’s.
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Feeding infants peanut products protects against allergy into adolescence
Feeding children peanuts regularly from infancy to age five reduced the rate of peanut allergy in adolescence by 71%, even after many years when the children...
Peanut allergies could fall by 77% if babies weaned early on peanut products
Peanut allergy could plummet by 77% if peanut products were added to all babies’ diets at four to six months of age.
Early introduction of gluten may prevent coeliac disease in children
Introducing high doses of gluten from four months of age into infants’ diets could prevent them from developing coeliac disease, a study has found.
Introducing peanuts and eggs early can prevent food allergies in high risk infants
Research undertaken by King’s College London and St George’s, University of London has found that introducing certain foods early to infants can prevent them...
Professor Gideon Lack selected to join prestigious Fellowship
The Academy of Medical Sciences has today elected 50 of the UK’s leading figures within biomedical and health sciences to their prestigious Fellowship. They...
Spotlight
How one study changed what we know about peanut allergy
Research from King’s, led by Professor Gideon Lack and Dr Alexandra Santos, has made ground-breaking in-roads to our understanding of food allergy. Their work...
News
Feeding infants peanut products protects against allergy into adolescence
Feeding children peanuts regularly from infancy to age five reduced the rate of peanut allergy in adolescence by 71%, even after many years when the children...
Peanut allergies could fall by 77% if babies weaned early on peanut products
Peanut allergy could plummet by 77% if peanut products were added to all babies’ diets at four to six months of age.
Early introduction of gluten may prevent coeliac disease in children
Introducing high doses of gluten from four months of age into infants’ diets could prevent them from developing coeliac disease, a study has found.
Introducing peanuts and eggs early can prevent food allergies in high risk infants
Research undertaken by King’s College London and St George’s, University of London has found that introducing certain foods early to infants can prevent them...
Professor Gideon Lack selected to join prestigious Fellowship
The Academy of Medical Sciences has today elected 50 of the UK’s leading figures within biomedical and health sciences to their prestigious Fellowship. They...
Spotlight
How one study changed what we know about peanut allergy
Research from King’s, led by Professor Gideon Lack and Dr Alexandra Santos, has made ground-breaking in-roads to our understanding of food allergy. Their work...