Peanut allergy rates in young children plummeted since guidelines were introduced that advised parents to feed the common ...

A 2017 change in guidance recommended exposing children to allergens “early and often,” likely preventing tens of thousands ...

For decades, doctors believed the best way to prevent peanut allergies was to keep young children away from peanuts entirely, ...

Doctors have long recommended that infants avoid peanut products. But in 2017, experts officially reversed that guidance, and food allergies decreased sharply. By Simar Bajaj Food allergies in ...

CHICAGO -- Pediatricians' use of "easy-to-implement tools" such as training videos, health record prompts and informational handouts to adhere to updated allergy-prevention guidelines could translate ...

A large U.S. analysis of 125,000 kids found a 36% drop in food allergies after guidance shifted to introducing allergens in infancy, including a 43% decline in peanut allergy. Eggs have now overtaken ...

For years, parents were told not to expose their babies to peanuts, to prevent a potentially dangerous allergy. But 10 years ago, a landmark study found the opposite to be true, stating that if babies ...

A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in ...

Doctors are more likely to adhere to allergy-prevention guidance with new tools. Pediatricians' use of "easy-to-implement tools" such as training videos, health record prompts and informational ...