60,000 kids have avoided developing peanut allergies after this medical advice in 2015, study says

One decade after researchers discovered that feeding babies peanuts early could prevent dangerous allergies, new data shows the change is paying off.

A national study led by Dr. David Hill, a pediatric allergist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, found that peanut allergies have dropped by 43% since health experts began encouraging parents to introduce peanuts and other allergenic foods early in life.

The findings

The breakthrough began with the 2015 LEAP (Learning Early About Peanut Allergy) study, which overturned decades of advice telling parents to avoid giving babies peanuts. The research demonstrated that early exposure could actually train the immune system to tolerate peanuts rather than reject them.

Now, nearly 10 years later, the new analysis, published in the journ