Researchers from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia looked at data on more than 7,600 children and how rates of food allergy, eczema and asthma varied depending on the area in which they lived.
They found that the younger children, aged four to five, living in the South of Australia, which gets less sunshine than the North, were more likely to have both food allergies and eczema.
Older children living in the same part of the country were six times more likely to have a peanut allergy and twice as likely to have eczema than those living in North Australia.
The researchers found no link between children’s asthma and where they lived.
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