Prevent a peanut allergy by feeding your baby peanuts


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Peanuts should not be avoided, but instead, regularly fed to children from infancy upwards in order to avoid an allergy, new research finds. — dpa

Regularly feeding children peanuts from infancy until the age of five years reduced the rate of peanut allergy by 71%, a study has found.

Researchers from King’s College London in the United Kingdom found that introducing peanuts into babies’ diets early achieved long-term prevention of peanut allergy.

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