When my husband and I had our first child seven years ago, the prevailing wisdom was that babies at risk of allergies should avoid peanuts or peanut products until age 3 or older. The idea behind ...

Since 1997, the estimated percentage of children in the U.S. who are allergic to peanuts has quadrupled. A new study challenges conventional wisdom, suggesting that introducing peanuts into ...

On Monday, the New England Journal of Medicine released the results of a five-year British-based study that tested whether giving small amounts of peanuts to babies at risk for the allergy could ...

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 ...

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 ...

For nearly a decade, national guidelines have recommended introducing safe forms of peanut-containing foods to infants to ...

In research that contradicts years of health advice, scientists said on Monday that babies at risk of developing a childhood peanut allergy might avoid it if they are given peanuts regularly ...

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.

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.

Infants whose diet includes peanuts appear to have a greater chance of avoiding a peanut allergy later in childhood, a highly anticipated new study found.

To Prevent Peanut Allergy Risk, Feed Infants Peanuts Early On, Says Study Published Feb 23, 2015 at 6:36 PM EST Updated Mar 18, 2016 at 6:15 AM EDT Allergies to peanuts have increased dramatically ...

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 ...