Advice to feed babies peanuts early and often helped 60,000 kids avoid allergies, study finds

A study that shook up medical practice by recommending giving babies peanut products early on to prevent allergies has had a big real-world effect. About 60,000 children avoided developing life-threatening allergies after the guidelines were first released in 2015. A new study published in the medical journal Pediatrics found that peanut allergies in children ages 0 to 3 decreased by more than 27% after the guidelines were first released, and by more than 40% after they were expanded in 2017. For decades, doctors have recommended delaying feeding children children with peanuts and other foods that may trigger allergies. up to the age of 3.