Article: Family allergies? Keep nuts away from baby.

Allergies to nuts figure prominently in the growing number of potentially life-threatening sensitivities to foods. A study now suggests that much of the problem may stem from the recent trend of feeding peanut butter and other nutty foods to very young children.

What makes this practice particularly worrisome, notes Wesley Burks of Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock, is that unlike most childhood food allergies-to milk, eggs, soy, or wheat, for example-allergies to peanuts (a legume) or to true nuts tend to persist into adulthood. Preventing these allergies in young children, therefore, may safeguard susceptible individuals from a lifetime of reactions.

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