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Oh! It’s those peanuts
A new study has shown that infants whose parents gorge on peanuts have a higher likelihood of developing allergies to them. Conducted for the Food Standards Agency by researchers from Imperial College London, the study revealed that children under on
e year generally would become peanut-allergic in families where average weekly household peanut consumption was significantly higher. According to the FSA, very low household consumption might even prevent egg-allergic children from developing allergies to peanuts. The researchers found that in households where children had an egg allergy, but no peanut allergy, the average weekly household consumption was lower. “This relationship was found to be independent of the child’s own level of consumption of peanuts,” the Scotsman quoted the FSA’s research as saying. The study was focussed on 133 children with peanut allergies, 150 with no food allergies, and 160 with egg allergies. Children with egg allergies were included because they are at high risk of developing peanut allergies. — (ANI)
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