I got to luckily grow up without any major allergies, beyond some light irritation whenever a cat walked by. But one of my daughters is allergic to peanuts (something that broke the heart of my poor husband), and we’ve had to adjust accordingly. Everything in the kitchen has to be peanut free, just in case, and we never go out of the house without the appropriate medicine. But a new study might have suggested a way to help stop those allergies from being too dominant.

Last year, The New England Journal of Medicine found a link between early exposure to peanuts and peanut products, and a severely reduced risk of an allergy developing over the course of a child’s life. A new study by King’s College London has agreed with that discovery, during an experiment that saw some children fed just breast milk and others that were also given peanut snacks.

This study brings some interesting ideas to the forefront about how to combat allergies in young children, which would have been more reassuring earlier for me and my children. Learn more about it from Cailyn Cox at sheknows right here.

Read the Full Article: Study claims that feeding babies nuts could help prevent future allergies