Parents Advised To Introduce Peanuts, Other Allergenic Foods Early To Prevent Serious Allergy : LIFE : Tech Times

Parents Advised To Introduce Peanuts, Other Allergenic Foods Early To Prevent Serious Allergy : LIFE : Tech Times: "In a review of related evidence published in the Canadian Medical Association journal (CMAJ), findings showed that introducing children to foods that typically cause allergic reactions like eggs and peanuts when they are four to six months old give them higher chances of avoiding a food allergy later in life.

This advice, authors noted, is contrary to the decades old belief of immunologists who advised parents to not include these foods in their children's diet until they are older.

"If parents ask how to prevent allergy in their children, our current advice is to introduce the allergenic foods at four to six months of age," the authors wrote in their study, citing that early and regular exposure to these allergens are important in building tolerance for them.

One of the researches to challenge conventional wisdom when it came to allergies was the Learning Early About Peanut (LEAP) study. Researchers of the LEAP study found that introducing peanuts early to children reduced chances of having allergy to the nuts by about 80 percent."



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