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# Multivitamins may help cut allergy risk
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/multivitamins_may_help_cut_allergy_risk_021120090711/
- Published: 2009-11-02T07:11:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:00:17.000Z
- Description: A Swedish study of more than 2,000 eight-year-olds found current multivitamin use unrelated to allergic rhinitis, eczema, asthma or sensitization. Children who started supplements before age four were 39% less likely to have allergic disease, which the authors call a suggestion, not proof.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Vitamins, Nutrition, Allergy, #vivvo-import

Health supplements - multivitamins - do not prevent allergic illnesses in eight-year old children, a new study in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found.

The study led by K. Marmsjo and colleagues from Karolinska Institute in Sweden that daily supplementation of multivitamins had no effect on the incidence of allergic rhinitis, eczema, asthma or atopic sensitization in more than two thousand 8-year old children.

However, children who started the multivitamin supplementation before the age of four years were at 39 percent less likely to develop allergic illnesses.

The researchers concluded "Our results show no association between current use of multivitamins and risk of allergic disease but suggest that supplementation with multivitamins during the first years of life may reduce the risk of allergic disease at school age."

*By David Liu*