American Academy of Pediatrics highly recommends that infants at high risk of peanut allergies should be give food that contains peanuts before they turn 12 months, The Guardian reported.
The advice comes in a consensus among American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and several foreign allergy groups.
Food used in the research are baby food, including peanut soup, smooth peanut butter and finely ground peanuts mixed into yoghurt and other baby suitable food.
The prepared statement will be release via online on August 31 in the journal, Pediatrics.
Experts highly recommend allergy tests to be done before exposing high risk infants, ages 4 to 11 months to food containing peanuts.
Those infants that shows allergic reaction from eggs or severe eczema and skin rash are good candidates.
The "recommendations are meant to serve as interim guidance" while the National Institute of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology are preparing more extensive guidelines.
The interim guidance is in response to an allergy study published this year.
There is a recent study that focused on peanut which could significantly cut food allergy rates. Learning Early About Peanut allergy (Leap) study, published in February just made a headline.
Professor Gideon Lack, of King's College London and his research team gathered data from 600 children, who are said to be prone to peanut allergy. Among them, 3.2% of the children who have been fed food containing peanuts developed the condition, compared to the 17.2% who avoided it.
"The real significance is that we now have a strategy to prevent peanut allergy, which we didn't have in the past," Lack said.
Another research which is due to be released this year is whether eggs, milk, fish, wheat and sesame can similarly decrease allergy rates.
