Advice to feed babies peanuts early and often helped thousands of kids avoid allergies

A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the real world.

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A study that upended medical practice by recommending feeding babies peanut products early to prevent allergies has had a big effect in the real world

A new study in the medical journal Pediatrics found that peanut allergies in children ages 0 to 3 declined by more than 27% after guidance was first issued, and by more than 40% after it was expanded in 2017

For decades, doctors had recommended delaying feeding children peanuts and other foods likely to trigger allergies until age 3

The approach has helped 60,000 children avoid food allergies, including