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A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent them from developing life-threatening allergies, a new US study has shown it’s making a big difference in the real world.
The study found about 60,000 children in the United States have avoided developing peanut allergies after new guidance was issued in 2015 about when to introduce the allergen to youngsters.
Before the new guidelines, parents were warned to avoid exposing their children to potentially risky foods until they were three years old, in the hope of avoiding a full-blown allergy.
Peanut allergy is one of the most common of these conditions, caused when the body’s immune system mistakenly identifies proteins in peanuts as harmful and releases chemicals that trigger symptoms like hives, respiratory issues, and sometimes, life-threatening anaphylaxis.
Recent findings from a study called Learning Early About Peanut Allergy (LEAP), led by Professor Gideon Lack of King’s College London, have revealed that introducing peanuts to children at an earlier age may actually reduce the risk of developing allergies.
