Schoolboy, 12, who’s never had takeaway due to deadly nut allergy is finally able to eat peanuts after life-changing NHS trial
FEEDING peanuts to under-fives slashes their risk of an allergy by 71 per cent, according to a study.Experts at King’s College London found that exposing babies and tots to peanuts consistently from a young age helps to protect them.
Professor George Du Toit, co-lead investigator from King’s, said: “This is a safe and highly effective intervention which can be started as early as four months of age.”in one group gradually increased peanut consumption from birth to age five, and the second group ate no peanuts at all over the same period.Prof Du Toit calculated that eating peanuts in infancy led to a 71 per cent lower chance of being allergic as a teenager.
Dr Jeanne Marrazzo, from study funder the American National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said: “These findings should reinforce“If widely implemented, this simple strategy could prevent thousands of cases each year.”APPROXIMATELY 44 per cent of people in Britain have an allergy or allergic disorder of some kind, says the charity Allergy UK.
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