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Article: Fed: Fatal peanut allergy can pass to babies in breast milk
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- April 4, 2001
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AAP General News (Australia)
04-04-2001
Fed: Fatal peanut allergy can pass to babies in breast milk
By Rada Rouse, National Medical Correspondent
BRISBANE, April 4 AAP - Potentially fatal peanut allergy can be passed from mother
to baby through breast milk, new research shows.
A Canadian study quantifying secretions of peanut protein into the milk of lactating
mothers has prompted allergy experts to call for at-risk babies to be screened.
Dr David Hill, director of the department of allergy at Melbourne's Royal Children's
Hospital, said eczema in a baby should be a warning sign to parents.
"A baby who presents with eczema and food allergies has a 50 per cent chance of having
a ...
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