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Emerging evidence that early peanut ingestion can help prevent peanut allergy in high-risk children has resulted in changing guidelines, said lead study author Dr. Elissa Abrams, a pediatric ...
Feeding peanuts to children lowers the risk of developing an allergy by 71 per cent, scientists have found.
FARE co-funded the Learning Early About Peanut Allergy (LEAP) study, published in 2015, [14] which has led to a shift in national dietary guidelines [15] to encourage the introduction of age-appropriate peanut foods during infancy to lower infant risk of developing peanut allergy.
[42] [43] [7] The guidelines discussed how to introduce peanut foods to infants as early as 4 to 6 months of age, with the goal of preventing peanut allergy. [ 6 ] [ 3 ] [ 7 ] For high-risk children, the guide recommended that an allergy specialist assess a child's susceptibility, possibly involving peanut allergy testing , followed by gradual ...
Guidelines suggest introducing peanuts as early as 4–6 months and include precautionary measures for high-risk infants. [79] The former guidelines, advising delaying the introduction of peanuts, are now [when?] thought to have contributed to the increase in peanut allergy seen recently. [80] [better source needed]
Young children might be able to overcome their peanut allergies if treated at an early enough age, according to a study published Thursday. The researchers gave increasing amounts of peanut ...
Previous research has suggested that peanut allergy affects 2% of children in Western countries and most remain allergic across their lifetime.
The fact that the topic of peanut allergy in children is research-worthy, and that early & frequent exposure is being looked at as a means of promoting tolerance, does not justify Chritakis's dismissal of concern as hysteria. David notMD 20:03, 9 November 2017 (UTC) I took the statement as the quote and cited BMJ source as it is.