In 2017, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a dramatic reversal in its approach to peanut-allergy prevention, recommending parents expose their infants as young as four months old to ...

For years, parents were told to wait, to hold off on peanut butter until toddlerhood, fearing a single spoonful might spark a dangerous reaction. Now, new research is flipping that guidance on its ...

Confusion regarding purpose, implementation, and risk factors, with mixed feelings reported about overall benefit of EPI ...

Children originally part of a peanut consumption trial maintained long-lasting peanut tolerance by age 12, a follow-up of the LEAP trial found. At 12 years of age, just 4.4% of high-risk kids given ...

Peanut introduction is not well known among those with less access to health-care information Having a pediatrician recommend early peanut introduction was best way for parents/caregivers to be ...

Feeding babies peanut-containing foods as early as possible can help prevent peanut allergy, but a new study published in JAMA Network Open found that parents need more support to get it right.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued interim guidance, in conjunction with 10 other medical organizations, supporting early rather than delayed peanut introduction during the period of ...

Feeding babies peanut-containing foods as early as possible can help prevent peanut allergy, but a new study published in JAMA Network Open found that parents need more support to get it right.

In Australia, the practice of introducing peanuts into an infant’s diet early on (before 12 months of age) has increased more than 3x in 2019 compared to 2007-2011 data, according to research led by ...