Feeding kids peanut products could actually reduce risk of allergy

LONDON — It might sound counterintuitive, but a new study by British scientists says that feeding children peanut products could dramatically reduce the risk of an allergy developing.

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In trials involving 640 infants at high risk of being susceptible to a peanut allergy, researchers from King's College London found that the early introduction of peanuts decreased the number of cases. The research was published in the New England Journal of Medicine

The study found that when the children reached 60 months of age, 13.7% of participants in the group avoiding peanuts had developed an allergy, compared with 1.9% in the group eating peanut products Read more...

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