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Article: Peanut study could help thousands HEALTH: ALLERGY PROBE HEALTH: ALLERGY PROBE New research examines babies' reactions to diet
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- July 29, 2007
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CAMERON Brydon is at risk of becoming one of the thousands of
children in the UK who have a potentially life-threatening food
allergy. As a sufferer of eczema, he has a one-in-five chance of
developing a reaction to peanuts.
But the eight-month-old, from Livingston, is taking part in a
groundbreaking study which could shed new light on why such allergies
develop and how they could be prevented.
The current advice in the UK as with many other Western countries
is that peanuts should not to be introduced into the diet of babies
with a history of allergies in the family for the first three years
of life.
This recommendation, however, which was introduced two decades
ago, has failed to halt a ...