The Food and Drug Administration (mostly known as FDA) categorizes peanut allergy as one of the major food allergens, along with milk, eggs, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat and soybeans, which makes it one of the most dangerous ones there is; but now, a new peanut allergy study UK proposes that there's a way to decrease the already existent allergy from an early age.
Recently, bakery giant Pepperidge Farm recalled thousands of its bagels after they found that there may have been a risk of their bagels containing peanuts and almonds, which can cause heavy allergic reactions; as the world continues to be concerned over strong allergens, the new peanut allergy study UK shows that there may be a way to prevent it before it turns deadly for children.
The New England Journal of Medicine has just posted a new peanut allergy study UK called "Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut Allergy" and developed at the King's College London in a partnership with several different allergen institutes in the United Kingdom and the US.
According to the BBC, the peanut allergy study UK shows that exposing children early on to peanuts will dramatically cut the risk of them developing allergies later on, by an amazing 80 percent, after having performed trials in more than 600 children.
Los Angeles Times reports that the researchers of the peanut allergy study UK examined children in two different groups, separating them as those who had no sensitivity to peanuts (which amounted to 85 percent of them) and the remaining 15 percent who were already developing the allergies.
Ultimately, only 1.9 percent of the children who regularly ate peanuts ended up developing the allergy by age 5, which meant an 86 percent relative reduction risk in peanut allergies - an astounding feat.
The New York Times reports that, while the research isn't as diverse as would be expected of this type of peanut allergy study UK (as it was only set in London with 75 percent white children), it showed that the minority younglings of other ethnicities saw the same results.
