In today’s Health Alert, many parents avoid giving infants and young children peanut products for fear of a serious allergic reaction, but new research suggests this actually might help prevent ...

But, as a new study found, giving infants small amounts of peanut products may actually protect them in the future. On May 28, the journal NEJM Evidence published a new study that followed 500 ...

Giving peanuts to infants as young as 4 months old reduced the risk of them developing an allergy in adolescence by 71%, according to findings published Tuesday in the journal NEJM Evidence.

Giving peanut products to children under 5 from infancy may lower the risk of developing a peanut allergy later in life, according to an NIH study.

Introducing peanut butters, soups and other products made from peanuts into your child’s diet early on may help prevent them from developing an allergy later in adolescence, a new study found ...

Introducing peanut butter to infants and toddlers seems to offer protection against developing a peanut allergy even in adolescence, a new study found. Sanny11/iStockphoto/Getty Images CNN — ...

In that study, half of the volunteers ate peanuts on a regular basis from infancy until the age of five, while the other half avoided peanut consumption during that same period. When peanuts were ...

The LEAP-Trio study, published on Tuesday in NEJM Evidence, showed that children who consumed peanuts early in life were 71% less likely to develop peanut allergies all the way up to 13 years of age.

Though parents have been advised to give their infants peanuts, many still worry about exposing their kids to the legume, a recent study found. Guidelines say peanut butter can be spread thinly ...

The new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), is a follow-up to an earlier study that showed a strong link between early exposure to peanuts — from four to six months ...

Giving Your Young Kids Peanuts Could Cut Their Allergy Risk. 3 minute read. ... The new research, known as the LEAP-Trio study, builds on previous work conducted by the same researchers.

The LEAP-Trio study, published on Tuesday in NEJM Evidence, showed that children who consumed peanuts early in life were 71% less likely to develop peanut allergies all the way up to 13 years of age.