Researchers found that eating peanut products cut the risk of young children developing peanut allergy by 80 per cent.
The LEAPA (Learning Early About Peanut Allergy) study, led by Professor Gideon Lack, involved 640 children aged between four and 11 months at Evelina London Children’s Hospital who were considered to be at high risk of developing a peanut allergy, due to egg allergy and/ or severe eczema.
To find out whether peanut consumption or avoidance was the best preventative strategy, half of the children were given peanut-containing foods three times a week until the age of five, while the other half avoided them.
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