King's College London researchers found that introducing peanuts into babies' diets early achieved long-term prevention of allergies. Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter We have more newsletters Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter We have more newsletters A study has discovered that feeding children peanuts regularly from infancy until they are five years old can reduce the rate of peanut allergy by a whopping 71 percent. The research, conducted by King's College London, found that introducing peanuts into babies ' diets early on could provide long-term prevention against peanut allergy.
This new research is part of the LEAP-Trio study, which builds upon the results of the Learning Early About Peanut Allergy (Leap) clinical trial. In the initial trial, half of the participants were instructed to regularly eat peanuts from infancy until the age of five, while the other half were told to avoid peanuts during this period. The scientists discovered that introducing peanuts to infants reduced the risk of developing a peanut allergy by 81 percent at the age of five.
After these five years, both groups were told they could consume as much or as little peanuts as they liked. The researchers found that by the time the children reached 12 or older, 15.4 percent of those who had avoided peanuts developed a peanut allergy, compared to only 4.
4 percent of those who had been eating peanuts f.
