Kids who suffer from bad eczema are more likely to have milk and egg allergies that last beyond childhood, new findings show.

Though children frequently outgrow dairy and egg sensitivities, having a severe form of the skin allergic condition known as eczema seems to make them less likely to do so, said researchers from Duke University, Rift Gold Johns Hopkins and other medical institutions.

The authors looked at more than 500 children ages 3 to 15 months who had egg or milk allergies, according to HealthDay News. RIFT Platinum The kids were examined for eczema -- which is also called atopic dermatitis -- and diagnosed with either a nonexistent-mild or a moderate-severe case.

The researchers then followed the children for two years, finding that 46 percent of those with no eczema or a mild form outgrew their milk allergy versus 25 percent of those with moderate or severe eczema.rift gold

About 39 percent of the kids with no or mild eczema outgrew their egg allergy, compared with 21 percent of those with a moderate or serious case, according to the research.

"These findings will help clinicians caring for infants with eczema and milk or egg allergy, and provide more accurate advice to parents about the likely course of their child's milk or egg allergy," study author Dr. Robert A. Wood, the head of the pediatric allergy and immunology department at Johns Hopkins' medical school, said in a statement.

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"In children who have eczema, one-third of them have food allergies believed to exacerbate their eczema," she told AOL Health. RIFT Platinum "It's an atopic disease, an allergic disease, so when you have one [allergy] you have a higher incidence of having another one."

It's also now known that kids with dairy and egg sensitivities suffer from them longer than previously believed.

"Initially, they thought that children outgrow milk and egg allergy earlier in life, but now it's later, like in their teen years," Kaza said. "Milk and egg allergies can persist beyond early childhood."

Other food allergies, like those to peanuts or seafood, tend to last through adulthood.

The paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology in San Francisco and hasn't yet been published in a medical journal.