Here is news for those suffering from allergies. Well, exactly, we are talking about peanut allergy. The recent study says that the habit of eating peanuts early in life may help in preventing development of peanut allergy. The study casts doubt on government health recommendations that infants and new mothers shouldn’t opt for peanuts consumption.This study

This theory is put forward after conducting a study of peanut allergy in 8,600 Jewish school-age children in the United Kingdom and in Israel.

This study report was then compared with the data on peanut consumption by infants’ ages four to 24 months.
The study says that the prevalence of peanut allergy was 1.85 percent among the U.K. students and 0.17 percent among the Israeli children. It also makes a finding that , that 69 percent of Israeli children were eating peanuts at nine months of age, compared to which only 10 percent of the British children has this habit.

According to Dr. George Du Toit and colleagues, who conducted the research, the most obvious difference in the diet of infants in both populations occurs in the introduction of peanut. Dr. Du Toit also cautions that more research is required before the U.K. and other countries change their guidelines regarding peanut consumption during pregnancy, breast-feeding and infancy.
The study conducted by Dr. George Du Toit and colleagues was published in the November issue of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Even though these findings are promising, they don’t prompt any immediate changes, cautioned the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI). It is of the belief that there are a number of other factors that may explain the differences in peanut allergy prevalence between Israel and the U.K.

Even though, this study’s findings may provide optimism for prevention of peanut allergy in the future, more randomized, controlled trials are needed to verify that early introduction of peanut is indeed effective.

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