Children who are fed peanut products as infants and toddlers are much less likely to develop a peanut allergy as adolescents, a new study found. Children who consume peanut products as infants ...

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 ...

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A new NIH study found that giving infants small amounts of peanut products from infancy to age 5 may reduce the risk of peanut allergies by as much as 71%.

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 ...

So it's only natural that parents are weary when giving their babies peanuts or peanut butter for the first time. But, as a new study found, giving infants small amounts of peanut products may ...

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 ...

Feeding peanut butter to babies — starting during infancy and continuing until age 5 — has shown to be effective in reducing allergies into adolescence, according to a new study.

Kids exposed to peanut products during infancy, as early as 4 months old, are less likely to be allergic to peanuts later in life, according to a UK study published Tuesday.

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 ...