Babies exposed to peanuts less likely to be allergic years later, study says

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Babies exposed to peanuts less likely to be allergic years later, study says
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An author of the study said the correlation was “extraordinary.” She advised parents that “plain old peanut butter mixed in warm water can work for a 4-month-old.”

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Michelle F. Huffaker, one of the authors of the study and the director of translational medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, said it was “extraordinary” to be able to demonstrate that early exposure to peanuts was correlated with a lower rate of peanut allergy lasting at least to age 12., examined children up to age 5, but “it wasn’t clear that that was necessarily enough time to prove long-term tolerance,” she added.

The researchers on the NEJM Evidence study — led by King’s College London, the University of California at San Francisco and the Children’s Allergy Service at the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London — previously examined peanut allergies in children up to age 5, again at age 6, and then continued following the group for another six years for the latest study.

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