The following is an excerpt from the latest study about nut allergies in children.
"A bold and controversial experiment that showed feeding peanuts to
babies and young children could protect them from developing allergies
later has shown long-term effects, doctors reported Friday. The children
were largely protected a year after stopping peanuts.
After avoiding peanuts for a year, just 5 percent of the children who
were given peanuts as babies developed a peanut allergy, the researchers
report in the New England Journal of Medicine. That compares to nearly
19 percent of children who didn't get peanuts as infants.
The findings reinforce guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics and
other groups, which recommend giving children small amounts of peanuts
to help avert allergies. For children at high risk because of a family
history of allergies, or because they have eczema or other allergies,
this should only be done under a doctor's supervision.
'This study offers reassurance that eating peanut-containing foods as
part of a normal diet--with occasional periods of time without
peanut--will be a safe practice for most children following successful
tolerance therapy,' said Dr. Gerald Nepom of the Benaroya Research
Institute at Virginia Mason in Seattle.
'The immune system appears to remember and sustain its tolerant state,
even without continuous regular exposure to peanuts,' added Nepom, who
also heads the Immune Tolerance Network, a research group sponsored by
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Esther
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