Feeding babies snacks made with peanuts before their first birthday appears to prevent the babies from getting a nut allergy. This was revealed by a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine
The study showed that among children at high risk of getting peanut allergies, eating peanut snacks by 11 months of age and continuing to eat them at least three times a week until age 5 cut their chances of becoming allergic to peanuts by more than 80%.
Nut allergies in the U.S. are on the rise and doctors and scientist were calling for banning of peanuts
in infant schools. This was now being adopted in Africa where parents were now afraid of giving their children food containing peanuts.
However the study have shown that the reason why in Africa there are rare cases of peanut allergy is that, Africans consume peanuts a lot from their early ages of life. Therefore it is advisable to give the infants peanut foods to prevent allergies.
Peanut allergies cause a lot of life threatening problems including anaphilasis.
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