Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/JMrO286AIbU   The incidence of childhood peanut allergy is 16% lower currently compared with a decade earlier.  The reason: more babies are eating more peanut products earlier than ever before.   Australian pediatric researchers at the University of Melbourne compared 1,933 12 month old infants recruited in 2018-19 with 5,276 controls studied 10 years earlier.  All children were allergy-tested and their diet analyzed.   The benefit of early exposure to peanut protein is even more dramatic when investigators looked that the current group of infants.  Those who delayed peanut exposures 12 months or more were 46% more likely to become peanut allergic.   If you have an infant, speak with your pediatrician about introducing peanut protein.   https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(20)31772-3/fulltext   #peanut #allergy #pediatrics #parenting