Early peanut exposure in babies tied to sharp drop in food allergy diagnoses

Historically, parents were advised to debar feeding peanuts to babies for the archetypal fewer years of life, but emerging probe has confirmed that introducing them sooner — arsenic aboriginal arsenic infancy — could assistance stave disconnected nutrient allergies.

A 2025 survey led by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia analyzed aesculapian records from dozens of pediatric practices crossed the U.S., uncovering that aboriginal instauration of peanuts resulted successful a 27% alteration successful peanut allergy diagnoses among children and a 38% alteration successful wide nutrient allergies.

The latest probe besides recovered that eggs had surpassed peanuts arsenic the astir communal nutrient allergen successful the children studied. Beyond peanuts, different communal nutrient allergens see milk, ovum and wheat.

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The caller probe — published successful Pediatrics, the diary of the American Academy of Pediatrics, successful October 2025 — focused connected a two-year play aft caller guidance was issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which archetypal advised parents to present peanuts earlier. 

Emerging probe has confirmed that introducing peanuts arsenic aboriginal arsenic infancy could assistance stave disconnected nutrient allergies. (iStock)

That updated guidance was based connected a landmark 2015 survey — the Learning Early About Peanut Allergy (LEAP) proceedings — which recovered that for infants who had terrible eczema oregon an ovum allergy, exposing them to peanuts erstwhile they were betwixt 4 and 11 months aged could trim peanut allergy hazard by 81%.

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The guidelines were updated again successful 2021, encouraging the instauration of peanut, ovum and different large nutrient allergens arsenic aboriginal arsenic 4 to 6 months for each children — including those without a past of anterior reaction, according to wellness experts.

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"Everyone has been wondering whether these landmark nationalist wellness interventions person had an interaction connected reducing rates of IgE-mediated nutrient allergies successful the United States," said archetypal writer Stanislaw Gabryszewski, M.D., Ph.D., an attending doc successful the Division of Allergy and Immunology astatine the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, successful a statement.

A 2025 survey led by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia recovered that aboriginal instauration of peanuts resulted successful a 27% alteration successful peanut allergy diagnoses among children and a 38% alteration successful wide nutrient allergies. (iStock)

"We present person information that suggest the effect of this landmark nationalist wellness involution is occurring."

The latest findings "are supportive of efforts to summation acquisition and advocacy related to aboriginal nutrient instauration practices," the survey authors wrote.

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"If confirmed, these findings would correspond a meaningful nationalist wellness beforehand — affirming that objective research, erstwhile coupled with wide guidelines and committed dissemination, tin so displacement the trajectory of puerility nutrient allergy."

Study limitations

The survey lone included information done aboriginal 2019 and did not see the guidance released successful 2021, which recommended aboriginal instauration of aggregate allergens careless of risk, the researchers acknowledged.

It besides relied connected allergy diagnoses from physics wellness records, which whitethorn miss immoderate cases. Also, the researchers did not seizure idiosyncratic feeding patterns.

Parents are encouraged to sermon immoderate concerns with their pediatrician earlier introducing imaginable nutrient allergens. (iStock)

Because the survey was observational, it cannot beryllium origin and effect, but lone association, the researchers noted. Other factors whitethorn power the outcome.

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In immoderate children, peanut allergy tin trigger severe, life-threatening reactions, including trouble breathing, swelling of the pharynx and a unsafe driblet successful humor pressure, according to Mayo Clinic. These reactions necessitate contiguous attraction with epinephrine, a life-saving allergy medication.

Not each parents whitethorn beryllium comfy with these revised guidelines, wellness experts say.

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"Not everyone has followed those guidelines, but this is further grounds that this aboriginal instauration is effectual astatine preventing nutrient allergies," Dr. Susan Schuval, main of the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology astatine Stony Brook Children's Hospital successful New York, antecedently told Fox News Digital.

Parents are encouraged to sermon immoderate concerns with their pediatrician earlier introducing imaginable nutrient allergens.

Amy McGorry contributed reporting.