Scientists have found a simple new method to reduce the rate of people suffering from a peanut allergy by a staggering 71 per cent.

How? By feeding a child peanuts regularly between the ages of four months old and five years old. What’s more, the method works even if the child then continues to eat peanuts or avoids them entirely after the age of five.

“Decades of advice to avoid peanuts has made parents fearful of introducing peanuts at an early age,” said lead investigator Prof Gideon Lack from King’s College London.

But now, he says, “the evidence is clear that early introduction of peanut in infancy induces long-term tolerance and protects children from allergy well into adolescence. This simple intervention will make a remarkable difference to future generations and see peanut allergies plummet.”

Source: Science Focus

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