If you’re trying to raise a healthy child (and who isn’t?) you want them to be as allergy-free as possible, right?
Well, if your baby has eczema or is allergic to eggs, they may be one of several babies who is at high risk of peanut allergy.
Peanut allergies are very common among kids these days. The researchers of a recent study about peanut allergies says these allergies have increased threefold over the last decade, and now affect between one and three percent of children in the United States.
However, there is a new doctor recommended way to bring down your child’s risk of peanut allergy, and that is to feed your child peanuts.
The study was performed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, and it’s now an official recommendation by them that infants be exposed to peanuts at an early age.
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“There is now scientific evidence that health care providers should recommend introducing peanut-containing products into the diets of ‘high-risk’ infants early on in life (between 4 and 11 months of age) in countries where peanut allergy is prevalent because delaying the introduction of peanut can be associated with an increased risk of peanut allergy,” says the academy.
The official recommendation is to give these babies small amounts of peanut products three times a week over a five year period.
Infants who are already sensitive to peanuts should try this exposure method in the presence of a doctor first, says the Academy.
