Flutterby™! : Kids should eat peanuts

Exposing infants to peanuts causes big reduction in peanut allergy, study shows.

One of the lead researchers, Gideon Lack, head of the Department of Pediatric Allergy at King's College London, agreed. "I believe that the findings are robust enough to tell us that if a child is at risk for peanut allergy...that child should immediately, as soon as they develop the first signs, have a skin prick test" for the allergy, he said. If the test is negative, the child "should be encouraged to eat peanuts regularly," Lack said.

If the skin test is positive, the same program could be followed under the supervision of a pediatrician, he said.