This is a true surprise. Contradicting conventional wisdom, a study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology finds that children who start eating peanuts or peanut butter at an early age and keep eating them, are 5.8 times less likely to develop peanut sensitivity.
“Our findings raise the question of whether early and frequent ingestion of high-dose peanut protein during infancy might prevent the development of peanut allergy through tolerance induction,” the researchers said.
“Paradoxically,” they said, “past recommendations in the U.S. and current recommendations in the United Kingdom and Australia might be promoting the development of peanut allergy and could explain the continued increase in the prevalence of peanut allergy observed in these countries.”
However, they said that current recommendations should remain unchanged until the findings can be confirmed in randomized controlled trials.
