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Peanut Allergy Prevention?

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Peanut Allergy Prevention?

Published: Sat, 8 Nov 2008

Description: Early exposure to peanuts may prevent allergies

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" There are delicious addition any cooking your trail mix or. Just to feel like to have them -- beer. Unfortunately a lot of people are allergic to them. And there is some new research is showing something pretty darn interesting early exposure to peanuts may actually prevent. Allergies. Now -- Dr. Manny Alvarez managing editor of Fox News health dot com can see now I always suspected there was something going on -- because when I was a kid. You know kids ate peanuts and nobody had peanut allergies. So tell us about this."

" Well you know interest seas study this is the journal of allergy and immunology looking at 5000. Children in the UK UK has the same incidence of peanut allergies as we do here in the US and looking at 5000 kids in Israel and what they found is that early exposure for sure you know. You know and Israel kids get exposed -- about sixty members of the kids get exposed. Eight at about 99 months of age to peanut products. And they found a significant decrease in beat analogies as compared to the UK which had a tenfold increased so the theory behind the steady is that perhaps. We should go ahead and introduced. These two children to minimize and to you know eradicate some of the always say -- increases -- analogy is that we've seen however however however we already have done studies here in the US you know clearly the recommendation in the US has always been. Not to expose children all below the age of three to any peanut product because in our stays here we did find. That let's say if you expose children at the age of nineteen months to peanut products there was an increase in peanut allergies. However I think that this is gonna be now will be evolving into more much larger study. Because perhaps there is some truth to the fact that you are able to run who's this -- it a very controlled way barely on kids are gonna have a lethality."

" I mean he you know these these guidelines it came out pregnant women should have been ads today infants shouldn't have been -- and their diet. It all came about after I was -- I was a kid. Nobody had eighteen an allergy now in my daughter's classes. That's like half the kids have peanut allergies nobody could bring peanuts and so forth so yeah anecdotally it just may."

" Sense to me it does make sense either on the problem has always had been a couple of things number one -- say you know food allergies in children. Has grown dramatically and we still don't know why you know for sure. The immune system of children today is a little bit different than that you're immune system when you drawn up because you were exposed to so many other things you know you went outside going to play in the yard god created all things. -- today are a little bit more a sterile if you will and therefore perhaps the overall immune system's compromised. All but nonetheless also another factor for the full speed analogy controversy has been the medical legal community remember once -- some that want some papers are being published that. Kids were alerted to beat this addiction that having been a products -- poll below the age of three. Everybody was very conservative in eradicating pianist from the marketplace for before being pediatric use self. You know this is going to really evolved but I think that this stay in the journal of allergy and immunology does have a lot of legs and the going to expand the study. You know -- kind of they can't -- prospective randomized trial so Jamie's mom Carol may have been wrong when."

" Right -- peanuts but if she didn't tell us what the nitrate stock can manage to get a little. I've I don't know how she and -- she made Antonin tuna sandwich and how can boost your immune system that's thanks so much stock demanding."

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