NIH: Parents Should Feed Infants Peanuts To Prevent Allergies

BALTIMORE (WJZ) —In the wake of research that indicates the introduction of peanut products to infants can help prevent the development of peanut allergies later on, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has issued new clinical guidelines.Clinical trial results reported in February 2015 showed that regular peanut consumption begun in infancy and continued until five years of age led to an 81 percent reduction in development of peanut allergy in infants deemed at high ri