Peanut butter loving babies are licking allergies, study suggests

24/10/2025 6 min
Peanut butter loving babies are licking allergies, study suggests

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Episode Synopsis

A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent them developing life-threatening allergies, a new US study has shown it's making a big difference in the real world. The study has found about 60,000 children in the United States have avoided developing peanut allergies after new guidance was issued in 2015 about when to introduce the allergen to youngsters.

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