A study published in the November issue of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology showed that children who avoided peanuts in infancy and early childhood were 10 times as likely to develop peanut allergy than those who were exposed to peanuts.
According to Newswise, researchers measured the incidence of peanut allergy in 8,600 school-age children in the UK and Israel, and compared that data from mothers on peanut consumption from ages 4 to 24 months.
At 9 months of age, 69 percent of Israeli children were eating peanuts, compared to 10 percent in the UK. Incidence of peanut allergy in the two groups was .17 percent 1.85 percent, respectively, indicating that early consumption of peanuts could prevent later development of peanut allergy.
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