Have peanuts, avoid allergies

Peanut allergies are responsible for more deaths from anaphylaxis, than any other food allergy

Peanuts are back on the menu. In a significant reversal from past advice, new national health guidelines call for parents to give their children foods containing peanuts early and often, starting when they’re infants, as a way to help avoid life-threatening peanut allergies.

The new guidelines, issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on Thursday, recommend giving babies pureed food or finger food containing peanut powder or extract before they are six months old, and even earlier if a child is prone to allergies and doctors say it is safe to do so. One should never give a