Children at
high risk of developing a peanut allergy should be given food with
traces of nuts to prevent an allergy developing, experts suggest.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued interim guidance endorsing the results of a study published earlier this year.
The
findings revealed that children who eat food containing peanuts three
or more times a week from under the age of one rarely have reactions in
later life.
Less than 1 per cent developed an allergy, compared with more than 17 per cent of youngsters whose diet was peanut-free.
It
marked the first major study to show that eating the nuts could reverse
the huge rise in peanut allergy – the number of cases in children has
doubled in 20 years.
I am appalled by this reporting., Peanut allergic is very real. I am allergic to peanuts, fortunately, mildly. Still I feel uncomfortable the whole day when I have eaten peanuts. I get reflux,
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I wonder what has caused the huge increase in peanut allergies the past few years?
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