Is it better to hold off on exposing infants to peanuts? A new study aims to find out:
Many experts believe the current advice to parents to keep peanuts away from their babies may be making the problem worse.In Africa, Asia and China, where peanuts are a staple food and routinely given to young children, rates of peanut allergy are lower than they are in the West.
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I am very interested in this. We have a 22 month old that just had an anaphylactic reaction to peanut and since we have a 2 month old as well we are concerned about what exactly ’causes’ peanut allergy.
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