
Atopic Dermatitis: It’s Not the Food, I Promise You
AAD 2025. Peter Lio, MD, from the Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, says, skip the elimination diet because food is rarely a cause of atopic dermatitis.
Peter A Lio, MD, clinical assistant professor of dermatology and pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, made this promise during an interview with Patient Care© leading up to the 2025 American Academy of Dermatology meeting being held March 7-11, in Orlando, FL. His topic was diet and
“The truth is, when we look at unselected patients, we find with good studies that are well controlled, food elimination does not provide a whole lot of benefit. And that's important to know because I often tell my patients, if it worked, I swear to you, I would use it.”
In the video above Lio provides details of research both ancient and contemporary that support the poor correlation between elimination diets and recovery from the skin eruptions and pruritis of atopic dermatitis.
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