Originally posted by Business Insider Australia, the article touches basis on a study that covered infants ranging in age from 4-11 and was high risk for developing a peanut allergy based on the presence of other allergies such as eczema.
Reportedly, those that were given peanuts had fewer peanut allergies and eventually allergy free.
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A team of British researchers challenged a long-standing wisdom about peanut allergy and may have discovered a way to cure it.
The age-old stance on allergies has been that parents should not feed their kids foods that could potentially trigger allergic reactions until they were older.
But six years ago, scientists from the paediatric allergy department at King’s College London began giving peanuts frequently to a test group of infants aged 4-11 months.
The children they were interested in were those who already had types of other allergies, such as eczema and were at a high risk of developing a peanut allergy.
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