Introducing Peanut in Infancy Prevents Peanut Allergy into Adolescence NIH Study Finds Protection Lasts No Matter How Often Kids Eat Peanut in Later Childhood

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/introducing-peanut-infancy-prevents-peanut-allergy-adolescence?utm_campaign=+60763522&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term= Feeding children peanut products regularly from infancy to age 5 years reduced the rate of peanut allergy in adolescence by 71%, even when the children ate or avoided peanut products as desired for many years. These new findings, from a study sponsored and co-funded by NIAID, provide conclusive evidence that achieving long-term prevention of peanut allergy is possible through early allergen consumption. The results were published today in the journal NEJM Evidence.